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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Funny How Time Slips Away Lyrics

Ray Price

Well hello there my it's been a long long time
How am I doin' oh I guess that I'm doin' fine
It's been so long now and it seems now that it was yesterday
Oh ain't it funny how time slips away
[ guitar ]
Say how's your new love I hope he's doing fine
I heard you told him that you'd love him till the end of time
Now that's the same thing that you told me it seems like yesterday
Oh ain't it funny how time slips away
[ guitar ]
I gotta go now I hope I'll see you around
But I don't know when though never know when I'll be back in town
But remember what I tell you in time you're gonna pay
Oh ain't it funny how time slips away