“You’re the Girl of My Dreams,” also known as “Lover’s Lane,” is a Carter Family song. The Carter Family recorded it in the 1930s, adding it to the large body of material they carried from Appalachian tradition onto record.
The song is a sweetheart’s remembrance. It recalls a meeting and a courtship in lover’s lane — the girl of the singer’s dreams — and the love that grew there, shadowed by the parting that followed. Tenderness and loss sit together in the lyric.
The song passed from the Carter Family into the bluegrass repertoire.
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