RAY PRICE & THE CHEROKEE COWBOYS
WESTERN STRINGS
Columbia CS-9139
1965
Produced by Don Law & Frank Jones
Ray Price - guitar/vocal
Grady Martin, Pete Wade - lead guitar
Jack Pruett, Charlie Harris - rh.guitar
Harold Bradley - bass guitar
Buddy Emmons, Jimmy Day (3) - steel
Pete Burke, Buddy Killen - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Johnny Bush - drums/vocal
Tommy Jackson, Francis Coleman, Wade Ray - fiddle
Floyd Cramer - piano
Recorded:
March 1/1956, Music City Recording, Nashville (3)
Dec 7/1964, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (1,2,4,7,9)
Dec 8/1964, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (5,10,12)
Dec 9/1964, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (6,9,11)
1.
DEVIL'S DREAM
(Traditional)
« © '49 Tree Publishing, BMI »
[ instrumental ]
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2.
LINDA LOU
(Roy Rogers - Elke Whelan)
« © '43 Peer International, BMI »
[ instrumental ]
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3.
CRAZY ARMS
(Ralph Mooney - Chuck Seals)
« © '56 Tree Publishing, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel
And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine
This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real
You're someone else's love now you're not mine
Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
For my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
And that's why I'm lonely all the time
[ steel ]
So please take the treasured dreams I had for you and me
And take all the love I thought was mine
Someday my crazy arms may hold somebody new
But now I'm so lonely all the time
Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new...
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4.
LIL' LIZA JANE
(Traditional)
« © '59 Red River Songs, BMI »
[ instrumental ]
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5.
RUBBER DOLLY
(Traditional)
« © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
[ instrumental ]
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6.
BURNT FINGERS
(Robert Wright - George Forrest)
« © '64 Robbins Catalog, ASCAP »
When a man plays with fire he gets burnt fingers
When he's a playing with desire he gets burnt fingers
When a man starts to trifel and leaves his true love all alone
He'll break her heart and break his own
When a man finds a bad girl he think it's fun
But when he comes back to his little girl the harm is done
When a man gets burnt fingers he gets the deepest kind of blues
When a man plays with fire he's bound to lose
[ guitar ]
When a man finds a bad girl...
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7.
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
(Traditional)
« © '46 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
[ instrumental ]
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8.
MAIDEN'S PRAYER
(Bob Wills)
« © '40 Bourne Co, ASCAP »
[ instrumental ]
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9.
TAKE YOUR OLD LOVE LETTERS
(Ray Price)
« © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Take back your old love letters that you wrote to me
Send them to somebody new
Take back your old love letters the words have grown cold
Breaking my poor heart in two
Take your rings and everything that reminds me of you
I don't want them laying around they only make me blue
Take back your old love letters that you wrote to me
Send them to somebody new
[ steel - fiddle ]
I love you dearest darling cause how they used to start
And I believed each word I read
Take back your old love letters you used to break my heart
Send them to someone else instead
Take your rings and everything...
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10.
SPANISH TWO STEP
(Bob Wills)
« © '60 Unichappell Music, BMI »
[ instrumental ]
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11.
LIBERTY BELLS
(Tommy Jackson)
« © '64 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
[ instrumental ]
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12.
SING A SAD SONG
(Wynn Stewart)
« © '63 Owen Publications, BMI »
Sing me a song of sadness and make it as blue as I feel
If a tear should appear it's because she's not here
Sing a sad song and sing it for me
She's unhappy with him she told me so
I'm unhappy without her and I still love her so
Sing me a song of sadness pretend it's the end of the world
Sing it soft and sing it low and then I'll must go
Sing a sad song and sing it for me
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