"I'd Love to Lay You Down" is a song written by Johnny MacRae, and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty. It was released in January 1980 as the first single from the album Heart & Soul. The song was Twitty's 24th number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week.[1] The song has sold 300,000 digital copies since becoming available for download.[2]
In 2002, Daryle Singletary released a remake, which went to number 43 on the same chart.
Conway's version of this song features an extremely unusual series of key changes: the song progressively lowers in key instead of the musical standard of changing keys upwards.
