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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(Bob Wills)
Sweetheart I'm all alone tonight
Thinking about my wasted past
I see that you were always right
And now I'm at your feet at last.
Take my heart and let it live
This is all I have to give
So please believe me when I say
For all the wrongs I done, I'll pay.
--- Instrumental ---
Sweetheart you know I love you
So why did I ever let you go
In dreams you're all that I can see
So won't you reconsider me.
My confession to you dear
Makes me shed a silent tear
My heart would be so light sweetheart
If you would say we'll never part...