Price hit Nashville in the early 1950s, rooming for a short time with Hank Williams. When Williams died, Price took over Williams' band, the Drifting Cowboys, and had minor success. He was the first artist to have a hit with "Release Me" (1953), a song made famous by Engelbert Humperdinck in 1967. However, Price became one of the stalwarts of the grinding, honky tonk music that became even more popular in the early 1950s with such singers as Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Webb Pierce and others. Price developed the famous "Ray Price Shuffle Beat" that is heard on "Crazy Arms," which served as the beat for many honky-tonk classics since then.
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A Maiden's Prayer Lyrics

Ray Price

(Bob Wills)
When the evening falls
Twilight shadows find
There beneath the stars
An Indian maiden divine.
The moon is on high
And seems to see her there
In her eyes there's a light shining ever so bright
As she whispers a silent prayer.
Every word reveals
An empty broken heart
Broken by fate
That's keepin' them so far apart.
Lonely there she kneels
And tells the stars above
In her arms he belongs and her prayer
Is a song, her undying song of love.
--- Instrumental ---
Every word reveals
An empty broken heart
Broken by fate
That's keepin' them so far apart.
Lonely there she kneels
And tells the stars above
In her arms he belongs and her prayer
Is a song, her undying song of love...