The Patsy Cline Story is a double-record, 24-track collection that Decca released in 1963, shortly after her tragic death. The compilation remains one of the strongest and most thorough retrospectives ever assembled, featuring most of her biggest hits — "Walking After Midnight," "She's Got You," "Crazy," "I Fall to Pieces," "Sweet Dreams" — plus a number of lesser-known gems like "Why Can't He Be You" and "Leavin' On Your Mind." The presence of these relatively unfamiliar tracks means that the album gives a more rounded and complete picture of Cline's career than 12 Greatest Hits, even if it isn't as thorough as the subsequent four-disc box set The Patsy Cline Collection. In short, The Patsy Cline Story is the ideal introduction for a listener who wants a little more than the basics, but doesn't want to invest in a box set.

PATSY CLINE
THE PATSY CLINE STORY

(Decca DXS-7176)

June/17/1963
Produced by Owen Bradley

Grady Martin, Hank Garland - lead guitar
Ray Edenton, Randy Hughes - rh.guitar
Harold Bradley - bass guitar
Walter Haynes, Ben Keith - steel
Bob Moore, Joe Jenkins - bass
Buddy Harman, Douglas Kirkham - drums
Floyd Cramer, Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Bill Pursell - organ
Charlie McCoy - harmonica/vibes
Rita Faye Wilson - autoharp
Vocals:
Millie Kirkham
The Jordanaires (Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews, Gordon Stoker, Ray Walker)
Recorded:
1960-1962, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville

1.
HEARTACHES
(Al Hoffman - John Klenner)
« © '56 Universal MCA Music, ASCAP »

Heartaches heartaches my loving you meant only heartaches
Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me
I can't believe it's just a burning memory
Heartaches heartaches what does it matter how my heart breaks
I should be happy with someone new but my heart aches for you

Heartaches heartaches...

Heartaches heartaches what does it matter how my heart breaks
I should be happy with someone new
But my heart aches and my heart breaks
And my heart aches for you
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2.
SHE'S GOT YOU
(Hank Cochran)
« © '61 Tree Publishing, BMI »

I've got your picture that you gave to me
And it's signed With Love just like it used to be
The only thing different the only thing new
I've got your picture she's with you

I've got the records that we used to share
And they still sound the same as when you were here
The only thing different the only thing new
I've got your records she's got you

I've got your memory or has it got me
I really don't know but I know it won't let me be

I've got your class ring that proved you'd care
And it still looks the same as when you gave it dear
The only thing different the only thing new
I've got these things she's with you

I've got your memory or has it got me
I really don't know but I know it won't let me be

I've got your class ring...
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3.
WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT
(Don Hecht - Alan Block)
« © '56 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »

I go out walking after midnight out in the moonlight just like we used to do
I'm always walking after midnight searching for you
I walk for miles along the highway well that's just my way of saying I love you
I'm always walking after midnight searching for you

I stop to see a weeping willow crying on his pillow maybe he's crying for me
And as the skies turn gloomy night winds whisper to me
I'm lonesome as I can be
I go out walking after midnight out in the moonlight just hoping you may be
Somewhere a walking after midnight searching for me

I stop to see a weeping willow...
**********
4.
STRANGE
(Mel Tillis - Fred Burch)
« © '61 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »

Strange how you'd stop loving me how you'd stop needing me
When she came along oh how strange
Strange you've changed like night and day just upped and walked away
When she came along oh how strange

Well I guess that I was just your puppet you held on a string
To think I thought you really loved me but look what thoughts can bring
Strange you're still in all my dreams oh what a funny thing
I still care for you oh how strange

Well I guess that I was just your puppet...
How strange how strange
**********
5.
LEAVIN' ON YOUR MIND
(Wayne P. Walker - Webb Pierce)
« © '62 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »

If you've got leavin' on your mind tell me now get it over
Hurt me now get it over if you've got leavin' on your mind

If there's a new love in your heart tell me now get it over
Hurt me now get it over if there's a new love in your heart

Don't leave me here in a world filled with dreams that might have been
Hurt me now get it over I may learn to love again

If there's a new love in your heart...
Hurt me now get it over if there's a new love in your hear
**********
6.
SOUTH OF THE BORDER (DOWN MEXICO WAY)
(Michael Carr - Jimmy Kennedy)
« © '39 Colgems Music, ASCAP / Shapiro-Bernstein Co, ASCAP »

South of the border down Mexico way
That's where they fell in love when stars above came out to play
And now as I wander their thoughts ever stray
South of the border down Mexico way

She was a picture in old Spanish lace
Just for a tender while he kissed the smile upon her face
For it was fiesta and they were so gay
South of the border down Mexico way

Then she sighed as she whispered manana
Never dreaming that they were parting
And he lied as he whispered manana
For that tomorrow never came

South of the border he rode back one day
There in a veil of white by candlelight she knelt to pray
The mission bells told him that he mustn't stay
South of the border down Mexico way

Ay-ay-ay-ay ay-ay-ay-ay ay-ay-ay-ay ay-ay-ay-ay
**********
7.
FOOLIN' AROUND
(Harlan Howard - Buck Owens)
« © '61 Central Songs, BMI »

I know that you've been foolin' round on me right from the start
So I'll take back my ring and I'll take back my heart
And when you're tired of foolin' round with 2-0-3
Come on home and fool around with me

Well I wasn't foolin' round the day I said I'd do
But many a night I wished that I've been foolin' too
I know it's foolish takin' all this misery
But when it's you a fool I'll always be

I know that you've been foolin' round on me...

So honey fool around you'll know right where I'm at
And don't worry if I'm lonesome cause I'm used to that
And when you're tired of foolin' round with 2-0-3
Then come on home and fool around with me

I know that you've been foolin' round on me...
Please come on home with me I'm waiting for you you see
**********
8.
I FALL TO PIECES
(Harlan Howard - Hank Cochran)
« © '60 Tree Publishing, BMI »

I fall to pieces each time I see you again
I fall to pieces how can I be just your friend

You want me to act like we've never kissed
You want me to forget pretend we've never met
And I've tried and I've tried but I haven't yet
You walk by and I fall to pieces

I fall to pieces each time someone speaks your name
I fall to pieces time only adds to the flame

You tell me to find someone else to love
Someone who'll love me too the way you used to do
But each time I go out with someone new
You walk by and I fall to pieces
You walk by and I fall to pieces
**********
9.
POOR MAN'S ROSES (OR A RICH MAN'S GOLD)
(Bob Hillard - Milton Delugg)
« © '56 Plan Two Music, PD »

I must make up my mind today what to have what to hold
A poor man's roses or a rich man's gold
One's as wealthy as a king in a palace though he's calice and cold
He may learn to give his heart for love instead of buying it with gold

And then the poor man's roses and the thrill when we kiss
Will be memories of paradise that I'll never miss
And yet the hand that brings a rose tonight is the hand I will hold
For the rose of love means more to me than any rich man's gold

And then the poor man's roses...
**********
10.
TRA LE LA LE LA TRIANGLE
(Marijohn Wilkin - Fred Burch)
« © '62 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »

I've got my life in such a mess and I don't know what to do
How can I live in this ol' world and be in love with two
If I said goodbye to my first true love my heart would break in two
For I'm halfway still in love with him and half in love with you

Tra le la le la le la triangle tra le la le la le la triangle
Tra le la le la le la triangle my life's in such a tangle
Tra le la le la le la triangle tra le la le la le la triangle
Tra le la le la le la triangle what'll I do about you

I saw you at the movie show just the other day
But I was with my other love so I looked the other way
I didn't want to hurt him couldn't bear for him to see
The way that I would look at you and the way you look at me

Tra le la le la le la triangle...
Tra le la le la le la triangle...
What'll I do about you what'll I do about you
**********
11.
TRUE LOVE
(Cole Porter)
« © '56 Chappell & Co, ASCAP »

While I give to you and you give to me true love true love
So on and on it will always be true love true love

For you and I have a guardian angel on high with nothing to do
But to give to you and to give to me love forever true
[ strings ]
But to give to you and to give to me love forever true
Love forever true
**********
12.
IMAGINE THAT
(Justin Tubb)
« © '62 Tree Publishing, BMI »

Imagine me still loving you after all you've put me through
Well I can't help it I just do imagine that and that's not the half
Imagine this if you can I've stood more more than I should stand
But I'd still take you back again imagine that ain't that a laugh

Can you believe I'd swallow my pride well yes yes I guess you can
Cause you know you've always had my foolish heart
Right in the palm of your hand

So for what it's worth to you it just don't matter what you might do
Cause I'm still waitin' and lovin' you imagine that ain't that a laugh

So for what it's worth to you it just don't matter what you might do
Cause I'm still waitin' and lovin' you imagine that ha ha ain't that a laugh
**********
13.
BACK IN BABY'S ARMS
(Bob Montgomery - Allen Toussaint)
« © '62 Songs Of The Knoll, BMI / Talmont Music, BMI /
Screen Gems Music, BMI / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »


I'm back in baby's arms how I've missed those lovin' arms
I'm back where I belong back in baby's arms

Don't know why we quarrel we never did before
Since we found out how it hurts I bet we never quarrel anymore

I'm back in baby's arms...

Thought I didn't need his love till he took it away
Now I'm back where I belong and in my baby's arms I'm gonna stay

I'm back in baby's arms...
Back in baby's arms back in baby's arms
**********
14.
CRAZY
(Willie Nelson)
« © '61 Tree Publishing, BMI »

Crazy I'm crazy crazy for feeling so lonely
I'm crazy crazy for feeling so blue
I knew you'd love me as long as you wanted
And then some day you'd leave me for somebody new

Worry why do I let myself worry
Wond'ring what in the world did I do
Oh crazy for thinking that my love could hold you
I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying and I'm crazy for loving you

Crazy I'm crazy for thinking that my love could hold you
I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying and I'm crazy for loving you
**********
15.
YOU'RE STRONGER THAN ME
(Hank Cochran - Jimmy Key)
« © '61 Tree Publishing, BMI »

If you are sincere when you say you don't care
That our love is just a memory
If the love that we knew won't bother you
Darling you're stronger than me

For if still loving you means I'm weak then I'm weak
For I still fall apart when we speak or we meet
If the love that we knew won't bother you
Darling you're stronger than me
[ guitar ]
If you can have fun with some other one
With no thoughts of what used to be
If it's easy to say that it's better this way
Darling you're stronger than me

For if still loving you means I'm weak...
**********
16.
SEVEN LONELY DAYS
(Earl Shuman - Alden Shuman - Marhall Brown)
« © '53 Music Sales, ASCAP »

Seven lonely days make one lonely week
Seven lonely nights make one lonely me
Ever since the time you told me we were through
Seven lonely days I've cried and cried for you

Oh my darling you're crying hoo hoo hoo hoo
There's no use in denying I've cried for you
It was your favorite past time making me blue
Last week was the last time I cried for you

Seven hankies blue I filled with my tears
Seven letters too I filled with my fears
Guess it never paced to make your lover blue
Seven lonely days I've cried and cried for you

Oh my darling you're crying hoo hoo hoo hoo...
Last week was the last time I cried for you
**********
17.
SWEET DREAMS
(Don Gibson)
« © '55 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »

Sweet dreams of you every night I go through
Why can't I forget you and start my life anew
Instead of having sweet dreams about you

You don't love me it's plain
I should know I'll never wear your name
I should hate you the whole night through
Instead of having sweet dreams about you

Sweet dreams of you things I know can't come true
Why can't I forget the past start loving someone new
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
**********
18.
YOUR CHEATING HEART
(Hank Williams)
« © '52 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »

Your cheating heart will make you weep
You'll cry and cry and try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through
Your cheating heart will tell on you

When tears come down like fallin' rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk the floor the way I do
Your cheating heart will tell on you

When tears come down like fallin' rain...

When tears come down like fallin' rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You're gonna walk the floor the very way I do
Your cheating heart will gonna tell on you
**********
19.
SAN ANTONIO ROSE
(Bob Wills)
« © '40 Bourne Co, ASCAP »

Deep within my heart lies a melody a song of old San Antone
Where in dreams I lived with a memory beneath the stars all alone

Well it was there I found beside the Alamo
Enchantment strange as the blue up above
All that moonlit pass that only he would know
Still hears my broken song of love

Moon and all your splendor knows only my heart
Call back my Rose Rose of San Antone
Lips so sweet and tender like petals falling apart
Speak once again of my love my own

Broken song empty words I know still live in my heart all alone
For that moonlit pass by the Alamo and rose my Rose of San Antone
[ strings ]
Broken song empty words I know...
And rose my Rose of San Antone and rose my Rose of San Antone
**********
20.
WHY CAN'T HE BE YOU
(Hank Cochran)
« © '62 Tree Publishing, BMI »

He takes me to the places you and I used to go
He tells me over and over that he loves me so
He gives me love that I never got from you
He loves me too his love is true why can't he be you

He never fails to call and tell me I'm on his mind
And I'm lucky to have such a guy I hear it all the time
And he does all the things that you would never do
He loves me too his love is true why can't he be you

He's not the one who dominates my mind and soul
And I should love him so cause he loves me I know
But his kises leave me cold

He sends me flowers calls on the hour just to prove his love
And my friends say when he's around I'm all he speaks of
And he does all the things that you would never do
He loves me too his love is true why can't he be you
**********
21.
WAYWARD WIND
(Herb Newman - Stan Lebowski)
« © '55 Universal PolyGram Int, ASCAP »

Oh the wayward wind is a restless wind a restless wind that yearns to wonder
And he was born the next of kin the next of kin to the wayward wind

In a lonely shack by a railroad track he spent his younger days
And I guess the sound of the outward bound made him a slave to his wandering ways

Oh the wayward wind is a restless wind...

Oh I met him there in a border town he vowed we'd never part
Though he tried his best to settle down now I'm alone with a broken heart

Oh the wayward wind is a restless wind...
The next of kin to the wayward wind
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22.
SO WRONG
(Mel Tillis - Danny Dill - Carl Perkins)
« © '60 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »

I've been so wrong for so long
Thought I could live without the love that you give
I was wrong oh so wrong
I have been so wrong for so long
I didn't know that I loved you so I was wrong

Well I never knew I could want you darling oh so much
Now that you're gone I dream of you and your sweet touch
I was so wrong for so long
But I've seen the light and darling I'll make it right I was wrong

Well I never knew I could want you...
**********
23.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH (IT HURTS)
(Floyd Tillman)
« © '56 Peer International, BMI »

I love you so much it hurts me darling that's why I'm so blue
I'm so afraid to go to bed at night afraid of losing you

I love you so much it hurts me and there's nothing I can do
I want to hold you my dear forever and ever
I love you so much it hurts me so

I love you so much it hurts me...
**********
24.
YOU BELONG TO ME
(Pee Wee King - Redd Stewart - Chilton Price)
« © '52 Ridgeway Music, BMI »

See the piramids along the Nile watch the sunrise on a tropic isle
Just remember darling all the while you belong to me
See the market place in old Algirs send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears you belong to me

I'll be so alone without you maybe you'll be lonesome too and blue
Fly the ocean in a silver plane see the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember till you're home again you belong to me

I'm gonna be so alone without you
And I'm hoping maybe you'll be lonesome too and blue
Fly that ocean in a silver plane see the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember till you're home again you belong to me
**********

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Patsy Cline Discography