What song contains sweetheart i loved you from the start?

The song containing the lyrics "Sweetheart I loved you from the start" in the chorus is called "Could I Have This Dance". It is a country music song written by Richard Leigh and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Anne Murray in 1979. The song was released as the second single from Murray's album "New Kind of Feeling", and it peaked at number two on the US Billboard Country Singles chart and number fifty on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.