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've Just Destroyed The World (I'm Living In) Lyrics

Ray Price

(Willie Nelson - Ray Price)
The sun just went behind the clouds
There's darkness all around me now
For I've just destroyed the world I'm living in
I broke her so many times
And now at last I've broken mine
I've just destroyed the world I'm living in.
What made me think that I could go on hurting her
I should have known there'd have to be an end
But fools in love I thought by fate
they never learn till it's too late
And I've just destroyed the world I'm living in.
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What made me think that I could go on hurting her
I should have known there'd have to be an end
But fools in love I thought by fate
they never learn till it's too late
And I've just destroyed the world I'm living in...