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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I'll Sail My Ship Alone Lyrics

Ray Price

(Lois Mann - Henry Bernard - Murray Burns)
Well, we've been sweethearts for so long
Now you say we're through
The love we shared is now a memory
I had built a ship of dreams
And planned them all for you
But now I guess what is to be will be.
I gave a message to the wind to take home
On to you hoping you would hear my S.O.S.
I thought that you would come back home my darling
Of you knew how much my aching heart was in distress.
Well, I'll sail my ship alone
With all the dreams I own
Drifting out across the ocean blue
Yes, I'll sail my ship alone
Though all the sails you torn
And when it starts to sink then I'll blame you.
--- Instrumental ---
Now, I'm just like a ship at sea that's lost without a sail
The dark clouds hide the sun from up above
And even with these broken dreams my heart will never fail
But deep inside there's only one true love.
Yes, I'll sail my ship alone
With all the dreams I own
Drifting out across the ocean blue
Yes, I'll sail my ship alone
Though all the sails you torn
And when it starts to sink then I'll blame you...