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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If You're Ever Lonely Darling Lyrics

Ray Price

(Lefty Frizzell)
If you're ever lonely darling think of all that I've been through
Long and lonesome nights sweetheart I've waited on you
Say in your mind you have it coming and you know you have to pay
Maybe baby you will learn and change someday.
Why oh why did you try to deceive me
You've made me blue sweetheart both night and day
Say in your mind you have it coming and you know you have to pay
Maybe baby you will learn and change someday.
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Why oh why did you try to deceive me
You've made me blue sweetheart both night and day
Say in your mind you have it coming and you know you have to pay
Maybe baby you will learn and change someday...