diff --git a/pkg/lint/rules/values.go b/pkg/lint/rules/values.go
index c596687c5..189012650 100644
--- a/pkg/lint/rules/values.go
+++ b/pkg/lint/rules/values.go
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ func validateValuesFile(valuesPath string, overrides map[string]interface{}) err
 	// We could change that. For now, though, we retain that strategy, and thus can
 	// coalesce tables (like reuse-values does) instead of doing the full chart
 	// CoalesceValues.
-	values = chartutil.CoalesceTables(values, overrides)
+	values = chartutil.CoalesceTables(overrides, values)
 
 	ext := filepath.Ext(valuesPath)
 	schemaPath := valuesPath[:len(valuesPath)-len(ext)] + ".schema.json"