Bob Wills (James Robert Wills, March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an America… Read Full Bio ↴Bob Wills (James Robert Wills, March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and big band leader. Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing, he was universally known as the King of Western Swing.
Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass. The band played regularly on a Tulsa, Oklahoma radio station, and added Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar, pianist Al Stricklin, drummer Smokey Dacus, and a horn section that expanded the band's sound. Wills favored jazz-like arrangements and the band found national popularity into the 1940s with such hits as "Steel Guitar Rag", "New San Antonio Rose", "Smoke on the Water", "Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima", and "New Spanish Two Step".
Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded with several publishers and companies, including Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia, and MGM, frequently moving. In 1950, he had two top ten hits, "Ida Red Likes the Boogie" and "Faded Love", which were his last hits for a decade. Throughout the 1950s, he struggled with poor health and tenuous finances, but continued to perform frequently despite the decline in popularity of his earlier music as rock and roll took over. Wills had a heart attack in 1962 and a second one the next year, which forced him to disband the Playboys although Wills continued to perform solo.
The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music. In 1972, Wills accepted a citation from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in Nashville. He was recording an album with fan Merle Haggard in 1973 when a stroke left him comatose until his death in 1975. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Wills and the Texas Playboys in 1999.
He was born near Kosse, Texas to Emma Lee Foley and John Tompkins Wills. His father was a fiddle player who along with his grandfather, taught the young Wills to play the fiddle and the mandolin. Wills spent his youth picking cotton and listening to adults sing their way through the day. "I don't know whether they made them up as they moved down the cotton rows or not," Wills once told Charles Townsend, author of San Antonio Rose: The Life and Times of Bob Wills, "but they sang blues you never heard before."
After several years of drifting, "Jim Rob," then in his 20s, attended barber school, got married, and moved first to Roy, New Mexico then to Turkey, Texas (now considered his home town) to be a barber. He alternated barbering and fiddling even when he moved to Fort Worth to pursue a career in music. It was there that while performing in a medicine show, he learned comic timing and some of the famous "patter" he later delivered on his records. The show's owner gave him the nickname "Bob."
The irony that Wills made his professional debut in blackface is not lost on Wills' daughter, Rosetta. "He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site. She remembers that her father was such a fan of Bessie Smith, "he once rode 50 miles on horseback just to see her perform live."
In Fort Worth, Wills met Herman Arnspinger and formed The Wills Fiddle Band. In 1930 Milton Brown joined the group as lead vocalist and brought a sense of innovation and experimentation to the band, now called the Light Crust Doughboys due to radio sponsorship by the makers of Light Crust Flour. Brown left the band in 1932 to form the Musical Brownies, the first true Western swing band. Brown added twin fiddles, tenor banjo and slap bass, pointing the music in the direction of swing, which they played on local radio and at dancehalls.
Wills remained with the Doughboys and replaced Brown with new singer Tommy Duncan in 1932. He found himself unable to get along with future [and multiple term] Texas Governor W. "Pappy" Lee O'Daniel, the authoritarian host of the Light Crust Doughboy radio show. O'Daniel had parlayed the show's popularity into growing power within Light Crust Flour's parent company, Burrus Mill and Elevator Company and wound up as General Manager, though he despised what he considered "hillbilly music." Wills and Duncan left the Doughboys in 1933 after Wills had missed one show too many due to his sporadic drinking.
Wills recalled the early days of what became known as Western swing music, in a 1949 interview. "Here's the way I figure it. We sure not tryin' to take credit for swingin' it." Speaking of Milt Brown and himself working with songs done by Jimmie Davis, the Skillet Lickers, Jimmie Rodgers,[5] and others, and songs he'd learned from his father, he said that "We'd pull these tunes down an set 'em in a dance category. It wouldn't be a runaway, and just lay a real nice beat behind it an the people would get to really like it. It was nobody intended to start anything in the world. We was just tryin' to find enough tunes to keep 'em dancin' to not have to repeat so much."
After forming a new band, "The Playboys", and relocating to Waco, Wills found enough popularity there to decide on a bigger market. They left Waco in January of 1934 for Oklahoma City. Wills soon settled the renamed "Texas Playboys" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began broadcasting noontime shows over the 50,000 watt KVOO radio station. Their 12:30-1:15 Monday-Friday broadcasts became a veritable institution in the region. Nearly all of the daily (except Sunday) shows originated from the stage of Cain's Ballroom. In addition, they played dances in the evenings, including regular ones at the ballroom on Thursdays and Saturdays. By 1935 Wills had added horn, reed players and drums to the Playboys. The addition of steel guitar whiz Leon McAuliffe in March, 1935 added not only a formidable instrumentalist but a second engaging vocalist. Wills himself largely sang blues and sentimental ballads.
With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills (something he learned clowning in those earlier medicine shows), the band became the first superstars of the genre. Milton Brown's tragic and untimely death in 1936 had cleared the way for the Playboys.
Wills' 1938 recording of "Ida Red" served as a model for Chuck Berry's decades later version of the same song - Maybellene.[6][7] In 1940 "New San Antonio Rose" sold a million records and became the signature song of The Texas Playboys. The song's title referred to the fact that Wills had recorded it as a fiddle instrumental in 1938 as "San Antonio Rose". By then, the Texas Playboys were virtually two bands: one a fiddle-guitar-steel band with rhythm section and the second a first-rate big band able to play the day's swing and pop hits as well as Dixieland.
In 1940 Wills, along with the Texas Playboys, co-starred with Tex Ritter in “Take Me Back to Oklahoma”. Other films would follow. In late 1942 after several band members had left the group, and as World War II raged , Wills joined the Army, but received a medical discharge in 1943.
California
After leaving the Army in 1943 Wills moved to Hollywood and began to reorganize the Texas Playboys. He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of his Texas, Oklahoma and regional fans had also relocated during World War II.
He commanded enormous fees playing dances there, and began to make more creative use of electric guitars to replace the big horn sections the Tulsa band had boasted. In 1944 the Wills band included twenty-three members.[8] While on his first cross-country tour, he appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and was able to defy that conservative show's ban on having drums onstage.
In 1945 Wills' dances were out drawing those of Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman , and he had moved to Fresno, California then in 1947 he opened the Wills Point nightclub in Sacramento and continued touring the Southwest and Pacific Northwest from Texas to Washington State.
During the postwar period, KGO radio in San Francisco syndicated a Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys show recorded at the Fairmont Hotel. Many of these recordings survive today as the Tiffany Transcriptions, and are available on CD. They show off the band's strengths significantly, in part because the group was not confined to the three-minute limits of 78 rpm discs. They featured superb instrumental work from fiddlers Joe Holley and Jesse Ashlock, steel guitarists Noel Boggs and Herb Remington, guitarists Eldon Shamblin and Junior Barnard and electric mandolinist-fiddler Tiny Moore. The original recorded version of Wills's "Faded Love," appeared on the Tiffanys as a fairly swinging instrumental unlike the ballad it became when lyrics were added in 1950.
Still a binge drinker, Wills became increasingly unreliable in the late 1940s, causing a rift with Tommy Duncan (who bore the brunt of audience anger when Wills's binges prevented him from appearing). It ended when he fired Duncan in the fall of 1948.
Winding Down
Having lived a lavish lifestyle in California, in 1949 Wills moved back to Oklahoma City, then went back on the road to maintain his payroll and Wills Point. An even more disastrous business decision came when he opened a second club, the Bob Wills Ranch House in Dallas, Texas. Turning the club over to what was later revealed as dishonest managers who left Wills in desperate financial straits with heavy debts to the IRS for back taxes that caused him to sell many assets including, mistakenly, the rights to "New San Antonio Rose." It wrecked him financially.
In 1950 Wills had two Top Ten hits, "Ida Red Likes the Boogie" and "Faded Love". He continued to tour and record through the 1950s into the early 1960s, despite the fact that Western Swing's popularity even in the Southwest, had greatly diminished. Even a 1958 return to KVOO where his younger brother Johnnie Lee Wills had maintained the family's presence, did not produce the success he hoped for. He kept the band on the road into the 1960s. After two heart attacks, in 1965 he dissolved the Texas Playboys (who briefly continued as an independent unit) to perform solo with house bands. While he did well in Las Vegas and other areas, and made records for the Kapp label, he was largely a forgotten figure — even though inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968. A 1969 stroke left his right side paralyzed, ending his active career.
Legacy
Wills' musical legacy, however, endured. His style influenced performers Buck Owens and Merle Haggard and helped to spawn a style of music now known as the Bakersfield Sound (Bakersfield, California was one of Wills' regular stops in his heyday). A 1970 tribute album by Haggard directed a wider audience to Wills' music, as did the appearance of younger "revival" bands like Asleep at the Wheel and the growing popularity of longtime Wills disciple and fan Willie Nelson. By 1971, Wills recovered sufficiently to travel occasionally and appear at tribute concerts. In 1973 he participated in a final reunion session with members of some the Texas Playboys from the 1930s to the 1960s. Merle Haggard was invited to play at this reunion. The session, scheduled for two days, took place in December, 1973, with the album to be titled For the Last Time. Wills appeared on a couple tracks from the first day's session but suffered a stroke overnight. He had a more severe one a few days later. His musicians completed the album without him. Wills by then was comatose. He lingered until his death on May 13, 1975.
Bob Wills was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
During the 49th Grammy Awards, Carrie Underwood performed his song "San Antonio Rose."
Before his own death, Waylon Jennings performed a song called "Bob Wills is Still the King".
Today, George Strait performs Bob Wills music live on concert tours and also records songs greatly reflecting the magic of Bob Wills and his Texas style swing.
Hollywood films
In addition to the 1940 film Take Me Back to Oklahoma, Wills appeared in The Lone Prairie (1942), Riders of the Northwest Mounted (1943), Saddles and Sagebrush (1943), The Vigilantes Ride (1943), The Last Horseman (1944), Rhythm Round-Up (1945), Blazing the Western Trail (1945), and Lawless Empire (1945). According to one source, he appeared in a total of 19 films.
http://www.bobwills.com/
Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass. The band played regularly on a Tulsa, Oklahoma radio station, and added Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar, pianist Al Stricklin, drummer Smokey Dacus, and a horn section that expanded the band's sound. Wills favored jazz-like arrangements and the band found national popularity into the 1940s with such hits as "Steel Guitar Rag", "New San Antonio Rose", "Smoke on the Water", "Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima", and "New Spanish Two Step".
Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded with several publishers and companies, including Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia, and MGM, frequently moving. In 1950, he had two top ten hits, "Ida Red Likes the Boogie" and "Faded Love", which were his last hits for a decade. Throughout the 1950s, he struggled with poor health and tenuous finances, but continued to perform frequently despite the decline in popularity of his earlier music as rock and roll took over. Wills had a heart attack in 1962 and a second one the next year, which forced him to disband the Playboys although Wills continued to perform solo.
The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music. In 1972, Wills accepted a citation from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in Nashville. He was recording an album with fan Merle Haggard in 1973 when a stroke left him comatose until his death in 1975. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Wills and the Texas Playboys in 1999.
He was born near Kosse, Texas to Emma Lee Foley and John Tompkins Wills. His father was a fiddle player who along with his grandfather, taught the young Wills to play the fiddle and the mandolin. Wills spent his youth picking cotton and listening to adults sing their way through the day. "I don't know whether they made them up as they moved down the cotton rows or not," Wills once told Charles Townsend, author of San Antonio Rose: The Life and Times of Bob Wills, "but they sang blues you never heard before."
After several years of drifting, "Jim Rob," then in his 20s, attended barber school, got married, and moved first to Roy, New Mexico then to Turkey, Texas (now considered his home town) to be a barber. He alternated barbering and fiddling even when he moved to Fort Worth to pursue a career in music. It was there that while performing in a medicine show, he learned comic timing and some of the famous "patter" he later delivered on his records. The show's owner gave him the nickname "Bob."
The irony that Wills made his professional debut in blackface is not lost on Wills' daughter, Rosetta. "He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site. She remembers that her father was such a fan of Bessie Smith, "he once rode 50 miles on horseback just to see her perform live."
In Fort Worth, Wills met Herman Arnspinger and formed The Wills Fiddle Band. In 1930 Milton Brown joined the group as lead vocalist and brought a sense of innovation and experimentation to the band, now called the Light Crust Doughboys due to radio sponsorship by the makers of Light Crust Flour. Brown left the band in 1932 to form the Musical Brownies, the first true Western swing band. Brown added twin fiddles, tenor banjo and slap bass, pointing the music in the direction of swing, which they played on local radio and at dancehalls.
Wills remained with the Doughboys and replaced Brown with new singer Tommy Duncan in 1932. He found himself unable to get along with future [and multiple term] Texas Governor W. "Pappy" Lee O'Daniel, the authoritarian host of the Light Crust Doughboy radio show. O'Daniel had parlayed the show's popularity into growing power within Light Crust Flour's parent company, Burrus Mill and Elevator Company and wound up as General Manager, though he despised what he considered "hillbilly music." Wills and Duncan left the Doughboys in 1933 after Wills had missed one show too many due to his sporadic drinking.
Wills recalled the early days of what became known as Western swing music, in a 1949 interview. "Here's the way I figure it. We sure not tryin' to take credit for swingin' it." Speaking of Milt Brown and himself working with songs done by Jimmie Davis, the Skillet Lickers, Jimmie Rodgers,[5] and others, and songs he'd learned from his father, he said that "We'd pull these tunes down an set 'em in a dance category. It wouldn't be a runaway, and just lay a real nice beat behind it an the people would get to really like it. It was nobody intended to start anything in the world. We was just tryin' to find enough tunes to keep 'em dancin' to not have to repeat so much."
After forming a new band, "The Playboys", and relocating to Waco, Wills found enough popularity there to decide on a bigger market. They left Waco in January of 1934 for Oklahoma City. Wills soon settled the renamed "Texas Playboys" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began broadcasting noontime shows over the 50,000 watt KVOO radio station. Their 12:30-1:15 Monday-Friday broadcasts became a veritable institution in the region. Nearly all of the daily (except Sunday) shows originated from the stage of Cain's Ballroom. In addition, they played dances in the evenings, including regular ones at the ballroom on Thursdays and Saturdays. By 1935 Wills had added horn, reed players and drums to the Playboys. The addition of steel guitar whiz Leon McAuliffe in March, 1935 added not only a formidable instrumentalist but a second engaging vocalist. Wills himself largely sang blues and sentimental ballads.
With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills (something he learned clowning in those earlier medicine shows), the band became the first superstars of the genre. Milton Brown's tragic and untimely death in 1936 had cleared the way for the Playboys.
Wills' 1938 recording of "Ida Red" served as a model for Chuck Berry's decades later version of the same song - Maybellene.[6][7] In 1940 "New San Antonio Rose" sold a million records and became the signature song of The Texas Playboys. The song's title referred to the fact that Wills had recorded it as a fiddle instrumental in 1938 as "San Antonio Rose". By then, the Texas Playboys were virtually two bands: one a fiddle-guitar-steel band with rhythm section and the second a first-rate big band able to play the day's swing and pop hits as well as Dixieland.
In 1940 Wills, along with the Texas Playboys, co-starred with Tex Ritter in “Take Me Back to Oklahoma”. Other films would follow. In late 1942 after several band members had left the group, and as World War II raged , Wills joined the Army, but received a medical discharge in 1943.
California
After leaving the Army in 1943 Wills moved to Hollywood and began to reorganize the Texas Playboys. He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of his Texas, Oklahoma and regional fans had also relocated during World War II.
He commanded enormous fees playing dances there, and began to make more creative use of electric guitars to replace the big horn sections the Tulsa band had boasted. In 1944 the Wills band included twenty-three members.[8] While on his first cross-country tour, he appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and was able to defy that conservative show's ban on having drums onstage.
In 1945 Wills' dances were out drawing those of Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman , and he had moved to Fresno, California then in 1947 he opened the Wills Point nightclub in Sacramento and continued touring the Southwest and Pacific Northwest from Texas to Washington State.
During the postwar period, KGO radio in San Francisco syndicated a Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys show recorded at the Fairmont Hotel. Many of these recordings survive today as the Tiffany Transcriptions, and are available on CD. They show off the band's strengths significantly, in part because the group was not confined to the three-minute limits of 78 rpm discs. They featured superb instrumental work from fiddlers Joe Holley and Jesse Ashlock, steel guitarists Noel Boggs and Herb Remington, guitarists Eldon Shamblin and Junior Barnard and electric mandolinist-fiddler Tiny Moore. The original recorded version of Wills's "Faded Love," appeared on the Tiffanys as a fairly swinging instrumental unlike the ballad it became when lyrics were added in 1950.
Still a binge drinker, Wills became increasingly unreliable in the late 1940s, causing a rift with Tommy Duncan (who bore the brunt of audience anger when Wills's binges prevented him from appearing). It ended when he fired Duncan in the fall of 1948.
Winding Down
Having lived a lavish lifestyle in California, in 1949 Wills moved back to Oklahoma City, then went back on the road to maintain his payroll and Wills Point. An even more disastrous business decision came when he opened a second club, the Bob Wills Ranch House in Dallas, Texas. Turning the club over to what was later revealed as dishonest managers who left Wills in desperate financial straits with heavy debts to the IRS for back taxes that caused him to sell many assets including, mistakenly, the rights to "New San Antonio Rose." It wrecked him financially.
In 1950 Wills had two Top Ten hits, "Ida Red Likes the Boogie" and "Faded Love". He continued to tour and record through the 1950s into the early 1960s, despite the fact that Western Swing's popularity even in the Southwest, had greatly diminished. Even a 1958 return to KVOO where his younger brother Johnnie Lee Wills had maintained the family's presence, did not produce the success he hoped for. He kept the band on the road into the 1960s. After two heart attacks, in 1965 he dissolved the Texas Playboys (who briefly continued as an independent unit) to perform solo with house bands. While he did well in Las Vegas and other areas, and made records for the Kapp label, he was largely a forgotten figure — even though inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968. A 1969 stroke left his right side paralyzed, ending his active career.
Legacy
Wills' musical legacy, however, endured. His style influenced performers Buck Owens and Merle Haggard and helped to spawn a style of music now known as the Bakersfield Sound (Bakersfield, California was one of Wills' regular stops in his heyday). A 1970 tribute album by Haggard directed a wider audience to Wills' music, as did the appearance of younger "revival" bands like Asleep at the Wheel and the growing popularity of longtime Wills disciple and fan Willie Nelson. By 1971, Wills recovered sufficiently to travel occasionally and appear at tribute concerts. In 1973 he participated in a final reunion session with members of some the Texas Playboys from the 1930s to the 1960s. Merle Haggard was invited to play at this reunion. The session, scheduled for two days, took place in December, 1973, with the album to be titled For the Last Time. Wills appeared on a couple tracks from the first day's session but suffered a stroke overnight. He had a more severe one a few days later. His musicians completed the album without him. Wills by then was comatose. He lingered until his death on May 13, 1975.
Bob Wills was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
During the 49th Grammy Awards, Carrie Underwood performed his song "San Antonio Rose."
Before his own death, Waylon Jennings performed a song called "Bob Wills is Still the King".
Today, George Strait performs Bob Wills music live on concert tours and also records songs greatly reflecting the magic of Bob Wills and his Texas style swing.
Hollywood films
In addition to the 1940 film Take Me Back to Oklahoma, Wills appeared in The Lone Prairie (1942), Riders of the Northwest Mounted (1943), Saddles and Sagebrush (1943), The Vigilantes Ride (1943), The Last Horseman (1944), Rhythm Round-Up (1945), Blazing the Western Trail (1945), and Lawless Empire (1945). According to one source, he appeared in a total of 19 films.
http://www.bobwills.com/
Bring It On Down To My House
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Bring It On Down To My House' by these artists:
Asleep At The Wheel (yeah) (Come on now, bring it on down to my house,…
Asleep At The Wheel Feat. Ray Benson (yeah) (Come on now, bring it on down to my house,…
Asleep at the Wheel/Willie Nelson (yeah) (Come on now, bring it on down to my house,…
RAY BENSON (yeah) (Come on now, bring it on down to my house,…
Willie And The Wheel (yeah) (Come on now, bring it on down to my house,…
Willie Nelson (yeah) (Come on now, bring it on down to my house,…
Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel (yeah) (Come on now, bring it on down to my house,…
Willie Nelson/Asleep at the Wheel (yeah) (Come on now, bring it on down to my house,…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys:
A Big Ball In Cowtown When it's sugarcane time Long around about June I'll be wa…
A Maiden Twilight falls, Evening shadows find, There 'neath the st…
A Maiden's Prayer Twilight falls, Evening shadows find, There 'neath the star…
Across The Alley From The Alamo Across the alley from the Alamo Lived a pinto pony and…
Along The Navajo Trail Every day, along about evening When the sunlight's beginning…
Baby Don't cry, don't cry baby Don't cry baby Dry your eyes, an…
Basin Street Blues Won't you come along with me To the Mississippi We'll take…
Beneath Hawaiian Palms 'Neath Hawaiian palms the skies are blue, our love is…
Betcha My Heart I betcha my heart I love you That's what I [Incomprehensibl…
Big Ball When it's sugarcane time Long around about June I'll be wa…
Born To Love You I betcha my heart I love you That's what I [Incomprehensibl…
Bottle Baby Boogie Oh, no All together boys, let's play Bottle baby boogi…
Brain Cloudy Blues My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside down Yeah, my…
Bubbles In My Beer Ah-ha-na Yeah Just watching the bubbles in my beer But come …
Cherokee Maiden One night when the moon was bright on the moonlit…
Closed for Repairs I saw a sign out on the highway I understood its…
Corinna Corinna Corrine, Corrina, where you been so long? Corrine, Corrina, …
Corrina Corrina Corrine Corrina, where you been so long? Corrine Corrina, w…
Cotton Eyed Joe Do you remember Long time ago Daddy worked a man called…
Cotton Patch Blues Oh Yeah Sittin' on this plow day dreamin' Thinkin' of the…
Cross My Heart I Love You I betcha my heart I love you That's what I [Incomprehensibl…
Deep Water I'm drifting into Deep Water, I'm starting to care for…
Dinah Carolina Gave me Dinah; I'm the proudest one Beneath the…
Dog House Blues Lace up your boots and we'll broom on down To a…
Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age Oh, glad now, yeah Don't be ashamed of your age, no Sing…
Don't Cry Baby Don't cry, don't cry baby Don't cry baby Dry your eyes, an…
Down Hearted Blues Gee, but it′s hard to love someone And that someone don't…
Elmer's Tune Why are the stars always winkin' and blinkin' above? What ma…
Everybody Does It In Hawaii Oh, Tommy Talk about Hawaii (yes, let′s talk about it) I…
Faded Love As I look at the letters that you wrote to…
Four Or Five Times Ah, four five times (ah, four five times) Baby four five…
Get Along Home Cindy I went up on the mountain Given my heart a glow All…
Goin' Away Party I'm throwin' a goin' away party A party for a dream…
Goodbye Liza Jane Up the river and around the bend, goodbye, goodbye Six-feet …
Hang Your Head In Shame Don't your conscience ever bother you Every time you hear my…
Hawaiian War Chant There's a sunny little funny little melody That was started …
Heart To Heart Talk For you I would tattoo me With lines crossing into a hand …
Home in San Antone Haven't got a worry, haven't got a care Haven't got a…
Hubbin' It Wagon load trouble Big steep hill to climb Honey, she done l…
I I betcha my heart I love you That's what I [Incomprehensible…
I Ain't Got Nobdy Ah dang There's a saying going 'round I began to think it's…
I Betcha I betcha my heart I love you That's what I [Incomprehensible…
I Betcha My Heart I Love You I betcha my heart I love you That's what I [Incomprehensibl…
I Betcha' My Heart I Love You I betcha my heart I love you That's what I [Incomprehensible…
I Can't Be Satisfied Well I'm going away to live Won't be back no more Going…
I Had Someone Else Before I Had You Oh, yes Look out Joe, let′s fiddle it now I had someone…
I Needed You I betcha my heart I love you That's what I [Incomprehensibl…
I Never Knew You, get me feelin' crazy There always on my mind And I…
I Won't Be Back Tonight I won′t be back tonight or ever When I leave this…
I'm A Ding Dong Daddy I reckon you all don't know me at all I just…
I'm Dotting Each 'I' With A Teardrop Oh let′s sing, Rusty I'm writing this letter to you, dear B…
I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket Putting all my eggs in one basket, yeah I′m putting all…
I've Got A New Road Under My Wheels I've got a new road under my wheels In my heart…
Ida Red Now, friends, before there's too much been said Let's all da…
Ida Red Like To Boogie No, you're wrong I know you think there's been enough said…
Ida Red Likes to Boogie Light in the parlor, fire in the grate Clock on the…
It Yes, it's a good day for singin' a song, And it's…
Joe There's a place called Joe's Where some of us go When the…
Keep a Knockin' But You Cant Come In Rap on that door all night But you can't get in Here's…
Keeper Of My Heart Oh yes, mmm You are the keeper of my heart Come in,…
Let's Get It Over And Done Let′s get it over and done There ain't no use in…
Little Cowboy Lament Ah-haw Yes, yes, the Little Cowboy's Lullaby Come in Tommy, …
Little Joe the Wrangler Little Joe, the wrangler, he′ll wrangle never more His days …
Maiden Twilight falls, Evening shadows find, There 'neath the star…
Milk Cow Blues Well, I woke up this mornin′, and I looked outdoors I…
Misery Memories and drinks don't mix too well. Jukebox records don'…
My Confession Sweetheart I'm all alone tonight thinking about my wasted pa…
My Gal Sal (Oh-oh) (Alright) (Yes, sir) They called her frivolous Sal …
My Life's Been A Pleasure Oh, oh Yes, yeah Oh, Jody, I know it, yeah Oh, let′s play O…
My Mother's Eyes With tears in my eyes, dear, I begged you to…
My Window Faces South Oh now, my window faces the South Good old Southland Yeah Se…
My Window Faces the South My window faces the South, I'm almost halfway to heaven S…
Nancy Jane I gotta gal long and tall sweet as she can…
New Faded Love Made famous by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Recorded by…
New San Antonio Rose Deep within my heart lies a melody A song of old…
Oh Lady Be Good Listen to my tale of woe, It's terribly sad but…
Oh You Beautiful Doll Honey dear, want you near, Just turn out the lights and…
Okie Boogie Now listen here friends, I wanna tell you About a brand…
Oklahoma Hills Many months have come and gone Since I wondered from…
Opening Theme Oh, Mister fiddling man, please strike up the band And play…
Party I'm throwin' a goin' away party A party for a dream…
Please Don Please don't leave me anymore, darling Partings are so sad m…
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone Please don't talk about me when I'm gone Honey, though our…
Put Your Arms Around Me Are you ready maybe are you willing to run? Are you…
Red River Valley From this valley they tell me you′re going I will miss…
Right or Wrong Right or wrong I'll always love you Though you're gone I…
Roly Poly Ah ha Roly Poly, yeah (Come in, Tommy) Roly Poly, eatin' co…
Rosetta Rosetta, my Rosetta In my heart, dear, there's no-one but yo…
San Antonio Rose Ah-ha, my San Antonio Rose Deep within my heart lies a…
Santa's on His Way Hooray hooray, Oh hear the merry sleigh Ding a ling, ding a…
Sittin Sitting on the top of the world One summer day, She went…
Sooner Or Later Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya Sooner or later,…
St. Louis Blues Aw yeah Oh, them old St. Louis Blues Listen here, all you…
Stardust And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the…
Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima Oh-oh Oh-oh Yeah When the Yanks raised The stars and stripe …
Stay a Little Longer Oh, gather 'round friends Why hurry? Let's all stay a little…
Stay All Night Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Miscellaneous Stay All Night …
Steel Guitar Rag Been runnin' around, seen many a town So maybe you'll find…
Sugar Blues Sugar Blues, everybody singin′ the Sugar Blues Whole town is…
Sugar Moon When it's sugarcane time Long around about June I'll be walk…
Sunbonnet Sue Sunbonnet sue When I said goodbye to you You promised you'd …
Sweet Jennie Lee Oh, now, sweet Jennie Lee Yeah, sweeten Yeah Oh, now Sweet J…
Take Me Back to Tulsa Where's that gal with the red dress on? Some folks…
Take Me Back to Tulsa (Live) Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry Take…
Take the Where's that gal with the red dress on? Some folks…
Texas Blues Aw, yeah That's them old Texas Blues Come in here, Lee, tell…
Texas Playboy Rag Oh, Mister fiddling man, please strike up the band And play…
The Girl I Left Behind I wrote her a letter when I′d known better And asked…
The New St. Louis Blues Aw yeah Oh, them old St. Louis Blues Listen here, all you…
There's Going To Be A Party There′s going to be a party for the old folks You,…
Thorn In My Heart A thorn was left in my heart by a rose Of…
Three Miles South Of Cash In Arkansas Yes, gather ′round now Whalin will tell you We're going thre…
Time Changes Everyrthing There was a time when I thought of no other…
Trouble in Mind Trouble in mind, I'm blue But I won't be blue always Because…
Waltzing In San Antone Haven't got a worry, haven't got a care Haven't got a…
Way Down In Texas Adios, goodbye amigos I am leaving you today Ain't nobody ar…
What Is This Thing Called Love I was a hum-drum person Leading a life apart When love flew…
What's The Matter With The Mill I took my wheat down to get it ground The man…
Whoa Babe Whoa babe, oh yeah Whoa babe, what can the matter be? Whoa…
With Tears In My Eyes With tears in my eyes, dear, I begged you to…
Yearning The song bird yearns to sing a love song The roses…
You Don't Love Me Yesterday brought love as sweet as clover Every kiss was fre…
You're from Texas Pardon me stranger I hope there′s no danger You'll think I′m…
You're Okay Indahnya srwaktu kita bersama Terasa bagai di syurga Engkaul…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Bob Wills:
A Big Ball in Cowtown When it's sugarcane time Long around about June I'll be wa…
A Maiden's Prayer Twilight falls, Evening shadows find, There 'neath the star…
Across The Alley From The Alamo Across the alley from the Alamo Lived a pinto pony and…
Along the Navajo Trail Every day, along about evening When the sunlight's beginning…
Basin Street Blues Won't you come along with me To the Mississippi We'll take a…
Big Balls In Cowtown Aagghh! Let the ladies split out wide Grab your pardner -…
Blues for Dixie Oh, if you've ever seen that ole Mississippi The queen of…
Brain Cloudy Blues My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside down Yeah, my…
Bubbles In My Beer Ah-ha-na Yeah Just watching the bubbles in my beer But come …
Cherokee Maiden One night when the moon was bright on the moonlit…
Corrina Corrina Corrine Corrina, where you been so long? Corrine Corrina, wh…
Cotto Patch Blues Oh Yeah Sittin' on this plow day dreamin' Thinkin' of the…
Cotton Eyed Joe If it hadn't been for Cotton Eyed Joe I'd been married…
Cotton Patch Blues Oh Yeah Sittin' on this plow day dreamin' Thinkin' of the…
Cross My Heart I Love You I betcha my heart I love you That's what I [Incomprehensible…
Deep Water I'm drifting into Deep Water, I'm starting to care for…
Dog House Blues Lace up your boots and we'll broom on down To a…
Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age Oh, glad now, yeah Don't be ashamed of your age, no Sing…
Dusty Skies Dusty skies, I can′t see nothing in sight (ah, Tommy) Good…
Elmer's Tune Why are the stars always winkin' and blinkin' above? What ma…
Ev'rything I've Got I've got a new road under my wheels In my heart…
Faded Love As I look at the letters that you wrote to…
Goin' Away Party I'm throwin' a goin' away party A party for a dream…
Hang Your Head In shame Don't your conscience ever bother you Every time you hear m…
Heart To Heart Talk How foolish can you be to be ruled by jealousy Can…
Home In San Antoine Haven't got a worry, haven't got a care Haven't got a…
How Can It Be Wrong It ain't right to hold you tight You tell me that…
I Ain't Got Nobody Ah dang There's a saying going 'round I began to think it's…
I Betcha My Heart I Love You I betcha my heart I love you That's what I [Incomprehensible…
I Can't Go On This Way Moanin' low, moanin' high Hair is turnin' gray Don't care …
I Wonder if You Feel the Way I Do Eight weeks ago tonight we parted It′s so hard to realize…
I'm a Ding Dong Daddy I reckon you all don't know me at all I just…
I'm Gonna Be Boss from Now On The worst thing I did was when I married you You're…
I've Got A New Road Under My Wheels I've got a new road under my wheels In my heart…
Ida Red Light the pilot fire in the grate Clock on the mantle…
Ida Red - 1960 Version Light the pilot fire in the grate Clock on the mantle…
Ida Red Likes the Boogie Light in the parlor, fire in the grate Clock on the…
Keeper Of My Heart Oh yes, mmm You are the keeper of my heart Come in,…
Lil' Liza Jane I've got a gal and you've got none Li'l Liza Jane I've…
Lilly Dale As I hear the Mocking birds, I remember the words When…
Little Cowboy Lullaby Ah-haw Yes, yes, the Little Cowboy's Lullaby Come in Tommy, …
Maiden's Prayer Twilight falls, Evening shadows find, There 'neath the star…
Milk Cow Blues Well, I woke up this morning And I looked out the…
Misery Memories and drinks don't mix too well. Jukebox records don'…
Miss Molly Oh, have you seen Miss Molly Her cheeks are rosy red Her…
My Adobe Hacienda In my adobe hacienda There′s a touch of mexico Cactus loveli…
My Life's Been A Pleasure (Ahh-now) (Ah-just close your eyes and dream a dream) (Yes …
My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You I must say that I don't care Hold my head…
My Window Faces South Oh now, my window faces the South Good old Southland Yeah Se…
New Roly Poly Ah ha Roly Poly, yeah (Come in, Tommy) Roly Poly, eatin' co…
New San Antonio Rose Deep within my heart lies a melody A song of old…
New Spanish Two Step Down below the Rio Grande, a senorita held my hand And…
New Spanish Two-Step Down below the Rio Grande, a senorita held my hand And…
New Texas Playboy Rag Oh, Mister fiddling man, please strike up the band And play…
Nobody's Sweetheart Now You're nobody, nobody's sweetheart now, There's no place fo…
Now San Antonio Rose Deep within my heart lies a melody A song of old…
Oh Lady Be Good Listen to my tale of woe, It's terribly sad but…
Oh You Beautiful Doll Honey dear, want you near, Just turn out the lights and…
Oozlin' Daddy Blues Just like a flower I am fading away The doctor call…
Playboy Theme Oh, Mister fiddling man, please strike up the band And play…
Please Don't Leave Me Please don't leave me anymore, darling Partings are so sad m…
Right or Wrong Right or wrong I'll always love you Though you're gone I…
Roly Poly Ah ha Roly Poly, yeah (Come in, Tommy) Roly Poly, eatin' co…
Rose Of Old Pawnee My Rose of Ol' Pawnee a flower of the dawn Blooming…
San Antonio Rose Ah-ha, my San Antonio Rose Deep within my heart lies a…
Santa's On His Way Hooray hooray, Oh hear the merry sleigh Ding a ling, ding a…
Sittin' On Top Of The World Sitting on the top of the world One summer day, She went…
So Let's Rock pari tyo dad ma hera gham lagyo ghamailo lagyo malai ramailo…
Sooner Or Later Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya Sooner or later,…
South Oh now, my window faces the South Good old Southland Yeah Se…
Spanish Two-Step Down below the Rio Grande, a senorita held my hand And…
St. Louis Blues I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate…
Stardust And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the…
Stay A Little Closer Oh, gather 'round friends Why hurry? Let's all stay a little…
Steel Guitar Bad Been runnin' around, seen many a town So maybe you'll find…
Straighten Up and Fly Right The buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the…
Sugar Moon When it's sugarcane time Long around about June I'll be walk…
Take Me Back To Texas Where's that gal with the red dress on? Some folks…
Texarkana Baby She's my Texarkana baby, do I lover her Lawdy Law Her…
Texas Blues Aw, yeah That's them old Texas Blues Come in here, Lee, tell…
Texas Playboy Rag Oh, Mister fiddling man, please strike up the band And play…
That's What I Like 'Bout The South Won't you come with me to Alabamy? Let's go see my…
The Kind Of Love I Can't Forget The kind of love I can't forget, dear Was the love…
There's a Big Rock in the Road There's a big rock in the road and it's there…
This Is Southland This is Southland, it just can't be beat So take a…
Thorn In My Heart Ah, la, la, la, yes, yes! Alright, Thomas, let's hear you…
Time Changes Everything There was a time when I thought of no other…
White Cross On Okinawa There's a white cross tonight on Okinawa Under skies of blu…
Whose Heart Are You Breaking Now? Not long ago we loved each other And we were as…
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone Will you miss me when I'm gone? Will you ever think…
With Tears In My Eyes With tears in my eyes, dear, I begged you to…
You Don't Care What Happens to Me Darlin' I love you so But it's kind a hard to…
You're from Texas Pardon me stranger I hope there's no danger You'll think I'm…
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