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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An Eye For An Eye Lyrics

Ray Price

Just because you lost your heart
Did you lose your conscience, too
Why must you punish me
For what he's done to you
Hatred caused by injured pride
Made you lie and deceive
You can't get back at him
So you take it out on me

(Chorus)
An eye for an eye, a heart for a heart
You're makin' me pay for another man's crime
An eye for an eye, a heart for a heart
You didn't have one - so you took mine

It was just a game with you
With no feeling or regret
You thought by hurting me
It would help you to forget
Will I be like you are now
Will I do the things you've done
Will another have to lose
Before I can say I've won

(Repeat Chorus