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 Told You So Lyrics

Ray Price

(Rex Griffin - Jimmie Davis)
So your new love let your feelings sad and blue
And it broke your heart in two to see him go
Now you know the lonely nights that I've gone through
And I'm glad that I can say I told you so.
When you cry yourself to sleep remember me
Think of all the things I told you long ago
You know how it feels to be, the used to be
And I'm glad that I can say I told you so.
--- Instrumental ---
So your someone broke your heart you realize
That the time has come to reap just what you sowed
For somebody else told you the same old lie
And I'm glad that I can say I told you so.
When you see me with the smile upon my face
And the sadness of an achin' heart you know
I'll be happy with another in your place
And I'm glad that I can say I told you so.
--- Instrumental ---
When you miss the happiness you'll never find
Think of me each time the bitter teardrops flow
But you have no mercy on this heart of mine
And I'm glad that I can say I told you so...