Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texa… Read Full Bio ↴Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons. Tubb recorded duets with the then up-and-coming Loretta Lynn in the early 1960s, including their hit "Sweet Thang". Tubb is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Tubb was born on a cotton farm near Crisp, in Ellis County, Texas (now a ghost town). His father was a sharecropper, so Tubb spent his youth working on farms throughout the state. He was inspired by Jimmie Rodgers and spent his spare time learning to sing, yodel, and play the guitar. At age 19, he took a job as a singer on San Antonio radio station KONO-AM. The pay was low so Tubb also dug ditches for the Works Progress Administration and then clerked at a drug store. In 1939 he moved to San Angelo, Texas and was hired to do a 15-minute afternoon live show on radio station KGKL-AM. He drove a beer delivery truck in order to support himself during this time, and during World War II he wrote and recorded a song titled "Beautiful San Angelo".
In 1936, Tubb contacted Jimmie Rodgers’s widow (Rodgers died in 1933) to ask for an autographed photo. A friendship developed and she was instrumental in getting Tubb a recording contract with RCA. His first two records were unsuccessful. A tonsillectomy in 1939 affected his singing style so he turned to songwriting. In 1940 he switched to Decca records to try singing again and it was his sixth Decca release with the single "Walking the Floor Over You" that brought Tubb to stardom.
Tubb joined the Grand Ole Opry in February 1943 and put together his band, the Texas Troubadours. Tubb's first band members were from Gadsden, Alabama. They were, Vernon "Toby" Reese, Chester Studdard, and Ray "Kemo" Head. He remained a regular on the radio show for four decades, and hosted his own Midnight Jamboree radio show each Saturday night after the Opry. Tubb headlined the first Grand Ole Opry show presented in Carnegie Hall in New York City in September 1947.
Tubb always surrounded himself with some of Nashville's best musicians. Jimmy Short, his first guitarist in the Troubadours, is credited with the Tubb sound of single-string guitar picking. From about 1943 to 1948, Short featured clean, clear riffs throughout Tubb's songs. Other well-known musicians to either travel with Tubb as band members or record on his records were steel guitarist Jerry Byrd and Tommy "Butterball" Paige, who replaced Short as Tubb's lead guitarist in 1947. Billy Byrd joined the Troubadours in 1949 and brought jazzy riffs to the instrumental interludes, especially the four-note riff at the end of his guitar solos that would become synonymous with Tubb's songs. Actually a jazz musician, Byrd—no relation to Jerry—remained with Tubb until 1959.
Another Tubb musician was actually his producer, Owen Bradley. Bradley played piano on many of Tubb's recordings from the 1950s, but Tubb wanted him to sound like Moon Mullican, the honky tonk piano great of that era. The classically trained Bradley tried, but couldn't quite match the sound, so Tubb said Bradley was "half as good" as Moon. When Tubb called out Bradley's name at the start of one of the piano interludes the singer always referred to him as "Half-Moon Bradley."
In 1949, Tubb helped the famed boogie-woogie Andrews Sisters crossover to the country charts when they teamed on Decca Records to record a cover of Eddy Arnold's "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" and the western-swing flavored "I'm Bitin' My Fingernails and Thinking of You." Tubb was impressed by the enormous success of Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne, and he remembered that their 1947 recording of "The Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn)" with folk legend Burl Ives produced a Top-10 Billboard hit, and he was therefore eager to repeat that success. He brought the upbeat "Fingernails" tune to the session, hoping that the trio would like it, and they did. Not realizing how tall the Texas Troubador was, the recording technicians at Decca had the sisters stand on a wooden box on one side of the one microphone they shared with Tubb so that the audio would balance. The rhythm trio also wasn't used to Tubb's vocal style, as Maxene once remembered, "He sang different than anybody I've ever heard. He sang the melody of the song, but the timing was different. It wasn't like we were used to...you sing eight bars, and then you sing eight bars, and then you sing eight bars. Not with him. He just sang eight bars, ten bars, eleven bars, and then stopped, whatever it was. So, we'd just start to follow him, and then got paid on 750,000 records sold that never came above the Mason-Dixon Line!"
Tubb never possessed the best voice and actually mocked his own singing. He told an interviewer that 95 percent of the men in bars would hear his music on the juke box and say to their girlfriends, "I can sing better than him," and Tubb added they would be right. In fact, he missed some notes horribly on some recordings. When Tubb was recording "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" in 1949 and tried to hit a low note, Red Foley, his duet partner at the time, was sitting in the booth when somebody said, "I bet you wish you could hit that low note." Foley replied, "I bet Ernest wishes he could hit that note." The two, who released seven albums together, maintained a friendly on-air "feud" over the years, and Tubb appeared on Foley's Ozark Jubilee on ABC-TV.
In 1957, he walked into the National Life building's lobby in Nashville and fired a .357 magnum, intending to shoot music producer Jim Denny. Tubb shot at the wrong man but did not hit anyone. He was arrested and charged with public drunkenness.
In the 1960s, Tubb was well known for having one of the best bands in country music history. The band included lightning-fingered Leon Rhodes, who later appeared on TV's Hee Haw as the guitarist in the show's band. Buddy Emmons, another pedal steel guitar virtuoso, began with Tubb in fall of 1957 and lasted through the early 1960s. Emmons went on to create a steel-guitar manufacturing company that bears his name. Buddy Charleton, one of the most accomplished pedal steel guitarists known, joined Ernest in spring 1962 and continued to fall of 1973. Buddy Charleton and Leon Rhodes formed a nucleus for the Texas Troubadors that would be unsurpassed.
Beginning in the fall of 1965, he hosted a half-hour TV program, The Ernest Tubb Show, which aired in first-run syndication for three years. That same year, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame; and in 1970, Tubb was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Tubb inspired some of the most devoted fans of any country artist — and his fans followed him throughout his career, long after the chart hits dried up. He remained, as did most of his peers, a fixture at the Grand Ole Opry where he continued to appear. He continued to host his Midnight Jamboree radio program a few blocks away from the Opry at his record shop. A notable release in 1979, The Legend and the Legacy paired Tubb with a who's who of country singers on the Cachet Records label, a label which Tubb was connected to financially. This long out of print duets album was re-released in 1999 as a CD on the First Generations label, on the 20th anniversary of its release, and it quickly went out of print again.
In 1980, he appeared as himself in Loretta Lynn's autobiographical film, Coal Miner's Daughter with Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl.
His singing voice remained intact until late in life, when he fell ill with emphysema. Even so, he continued to make over 200 personal appearances a year, carrying an oxygen tank on his bus. After each performance he would shake hands and sign autographs with every fan who wanted to stay. Health problems finally halted his performances in 1982.
He finally died of the illness in 1984 at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He is buried in Nashville's Hermitage Memorial Gardens.
Tubb was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999, and he ranked number 21 in CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music in 2003.
One of his sons, Justin Tubb, made a minor splash on the country music scene in the 1950s; and Justin's sons, Carey and Zachary Tubb, also became musicians. Tubb's nephew, Billy Lee Tubb, was his lead guitarist briefly (fall 1959–April 1960). He also had solo careers under several pseudonyms (Ronny Wade, X. Lincoln) and played with John Anderson, writing several songs with him. Tubb's great nephew, Lucky Tubb, has toured with Hank Williams III.
Cal Smith, who played guitar for the Texas Troubadours during the 1960s, went on to a successful country music career of his own in the 1970s, recording hits such as "Country Bumpkin". Jack Greene, who played drums for the Texas Troubadours, also went on to become a successful country music star following his departure from Tubb's band, recording the hits "There Goes My Everything" and "Statue of a Fool".
Ernest Tubb's nephew, Glenn Douglas Tubb, wrote his first hit song for his uncle in 1952. He then went on to write more than 50 hits songs for more than two dozen country and rock music superstars, including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, BJ Thomas, George Jones, Kentucky Headhunters, Charlie Pride, Ann Murray and Kitty Wells. Glenn won a Grammy Award for "Skip A Rope." He currently performs "The Ernest Tubb Tribute Show" at The Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree broadcast on WSM Radio, and theaters across America.
The Ernest Tubb Record Store, founded in 1947, is still in operation in Nashville, along with two branch stores.
Tubb was born on a cotton farm near Crisp, in Ellis County, Texas (now a ghost town). His father was a sharecropper, so Tubb spent his youth working on farms throughout the state. He was inspired by Jimmie Rodgers and spent his spare time learning to sing, yodel, and play the guitar. At age 19, he took a job as a singer on San Antonio radio station KONO-AM. The pay was low so Tubb also dug ditches for the Works Progress Administration and then clerked at a drug store. In 1939 he moved to San Angelo, Texas and was hired to do a 15-minute afternoon live show on radio station KGKL-AM. He drove a beer delivery truck in order to support himself during this time, and during World War II he wrote and recorded a song titled "Beautiful San Angelo".
In 1936, Tubb contacted Jimmie Rodgers’s widow (Rodgers died in 1933) to ask for an autographed photo. A friendship developed and she was instrumental in getting Tubb a recording contract with RCA. His first two records were unsuccessful. A tonsillectomy in 1939 affected his singing style so he turned to songwriting. In 1940 he switched to Decca records to try singing again and it was his sixth Decca release with the single "Walking the Floor Over You" that brought Tubb to stardom.
Tubb joined the Grand Ole Opry in February 1943 and put together his band, the Texas Troubadours. Tubb's first band members were from Gadsden, Alabama. They were, Vernon "Toby" Reese, Chester Studdard, and Ray "Kemo" Head. He remained a regular on the radio show for four decades, and hosted his own Midnight Jamboree radio show each Saturday night after the Opry. Tubb headlined the first Grand Ole Opry show presented in Carnegie Hall in New York City in September 1947.
Tubb always surrounded himself with some of Nashville's best musicians. Jimmy Short, his first guitarist in the Troubadours, is credited with the Tubb sound of single-string guitar picking. From about 1943 to 1948, Short featured clean, clear riffs throughout Tubb's songs. Other well-known musicians to either travel with Tubb as band members or record on his records were steel guitarist Jerry Byrd and Tommy "Butterball" Paige, who replaced Short as Tubb's lead guitarist in 1947. Billy Byrd joined the Troubadours in 1949 and brought jazzy riffs to the instrumental interludes, especially the four-note riff at the end of his guitar solos that would become synonymous with Tubb's songs. Actually a jazz musician, Byrd—no relation to Jerry—remained with Tubb until 1959.
Another Tubb musician was actually his producer, Owen Bradley. Bradley played piano on many of Tubb's recordings from the 1950s, but Tubb wanted him to sound like Moon Mullican, the honky tonk piano great of that era. The classically trained Bradley tried, but couldn't quite match the sound, so Tubb said Bradley was "half as good" as Moon. When Tubb called out Bradley's name at the start of one of the piano interludes the singer always referred to him as "Half-Moon Bradley."
In 1949, Tubb helped the famed boogie-woogie Andrews Sisters crossover to the country charts when they teamed on Decca Records to record a cover of Eddy Arnold's "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" and the western-swing flavored "I'm Bitin' My Fingernails and Thinking of You." Tubb was impressed by the enormous success of Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne, and he remembered that their 1947 recording of "The Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn)" with folk legend Burl Ives produced a Top-10 Billboard hit, and he was therefore eager to repeat that success. He brought the upbeat "Fingernails" tune to the session, hoping that the trio would like it, and they did. Not realizing how tall the Texas Troubador was, the recording technicians at Decca had the sisters stand on a wooden box on one side of the one microphone they shared with Tubb so that the audio would balance. The rhythm trio also wasn't used to Tubb's vocal style, as Maxene once remembered, "He sang different than anybody I've ever heard. He sang the melody of the song, but the timing was different. It wasn't like we were used to...you sing eight bars, and then you sing eight bars, and then you sing eight bars. Not with him. He just sang eight bars, ten bars, eleven bars, and then stopped, whatever it was. So, we'd just start to follow him, and then got paid on 750,000 records sold that never came above the Mason-Dixon Line!"
Tubb never possessed the best voice and actually mocked his own singing. He told an interviewer that 95 percent of the men in bars would hear his music on the juke box and say to their girlfriends, "I can sing better than him," and Tubb added they would be right. In fact, he missed some notes horribly on some recordings. When Tubb was recording "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" in 1949 and tried to hit a low note, Red Foley, his duet partner at the time, was sitting in the booth when somebody said, "I bet you wish you could hit that low note." Foley replied, "I bet Ernest wishes he could hit that note." The two, who released seven albums together, maintained a friendly on-air "feud" over the years, and Tubb appeared on Foley's Ozark Jubilee on ABC-TV.
In 1957, he walked into the National Life building's lobby in Nashville and fired a .357 magnum, intending to shoot music producer Jim Denny. Tubb shot at the wrong man but did not hit anyone. He was arrested and charged with public drunkenness.
In the 1960s, Tubb was well known for having one of the best bands in country music history. The band included lightning-fingered Leon Rhodes, who later appeared on TV's Hee Haw as the guitarist in the show's band. Buddy Emmons, another pedal steel guitar virtuoso, began with Tubb in fall of 1957 and lasted through the early 1960s. Emmons went on to create a steel-guitar manufacturing company that bears his name. Buddy Charleton, one of the most accomplished pedal steel guitarists known, joined Ernest in spring 1962 and continued to fall of 1973. Buddy Charleton and Leon Rhodes formed a nucleus for the Texas Troubadors that would be unsurpassed.
Beginning in the fall of 1965, he hosted a half-hour TV program, The Ernest Tubb Show, which aired in first-run syndication for three years. That same year, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame; and in 1970, Tubb was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Tubb inspired some of the most devoted fans of any country artist — and his fans followed him throughout his career, long after the chart hits dried up. He remained, as did most of his peers, a fixture at the Grand Ole Opry where he continued to appear. He continued to host his Midnight Jamboree radio program a few blocks away from the Opry at his record shop. A notable release in 1979, The Legend and the Legacy paired Tubb with a who's who of country singers on the Cachet Records label, a label which Tubb was connected to financially. This long out of print duets album was re-released in 1999 as a CD on the First Generations label, on the 20th anniversary of its release, and it quickly went out of print again.
In 1980, he appeared as himself in Loretta Lynn's autobiographical film, Coal Miner's Daughter with Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl.
His singing voice remained intact until late in life, when he fell ill with emphysema. Even so, he continued to make over 200 personal appearances a year, carrying an oxygen tank on his bus. After each performance he would shake hands and sign autographs with every fan who wanted to stay. Health problems finally halted his performances in 1982.
He finally died of the illness in 1984 at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He is buried in Nashville's Hermitage Memorial Gardens.
Tubb was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999, and he ranked number 21 in CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music in 2003.
One of his sons, Justin Tubb, made a minor splash on the country music scene in the 1950s; and Justin's sons, Carey and Zachary Tubb, also became musicians. Tubb's nephew, Billy Lee Tubb, was his lead guitarist briefly (fall 1959–April 1960). He also had solo careers under several pseudonyms (Ronny Wade, X. Lincoln) and played with John Anderson, writing several songs with him. Tubb's great nephew, Lucky Tubb, has toured with Hank Williams III.
Cal Smith, who played guitar for the Texas Troubadours during the 1960s, went on to a successful country music career of his own in the 1970s, recording hits such as "Country Bumpkin". Jack Greene, who played drums for the Texas Troubadours, also went on to become a successful country music star following his departure from Tubb's band, recording the hits "There Goes My Everything" and "Statue of a Fool".
Ernest Tubb's nephew, Glenn Douglas Tubb, wrote his first hit song for his uncle in 1952. He then went on to write more than 50 hits songs for more than two dozen country and rock music superstars, including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, BJ Thomas, George Jones, Kentucky Headhunters, Charlie Pride, Ann Murray and Kitty Wells. Glenn won a Grammy Award for "Skip A Rope." He currently performs "The Ernest Tubb Tribute Show" at The Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree broadcast on WSM Radio, and theaters across America.
The Ernest Tubb Record Store, founded in 1947, is still in operation in Nashville, along with two branch stores.
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Ernest Tubb Lyrics
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Akshin My love is gone, I've got no tears. That drama's over,…
Andrea Di Giovanni I see you when I'm thankful Got no time for no…
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Arnie B. 6 little eggs on the run They f*ck each other three…
Burna Boy To understand Nigeria You need to appreciate where it came f…
by The Head and the Heart These are just flames Burning in your fireplace I hear your …
Cock Robin Don't know where I've been For I thought I'd listened…
Dougie MacLean He is the farmer and he turns our tired soil And…
Electric Youth Who can help me out I know I wasn't born with…
Head And Heart These are just flames Burning in your fireplace I hear your …
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Mr. Mirainga 最終のバスにはまだ間に合うかなぁ 遠くの街まで君を迎えに行く いつも笑ってた 無理してたんだな それも分かってた 自分…
Mr.Beat Find The missing time That left behind you lonely long befor…
Mr.Children saishuu no basu ni wa mada ma ni au kanaa tooku…
Poodieville Don′t speak, no, don't try It′s been a secret for the…
Pyrit Looking at the ceiling Starring at the wall Looking in the…
The Damn Quails I'll meet you in the night Just like any other time You'll…
The Flying Lizards The beast waits on one leg While the clown tells…
The Head And Heart These are just flames Burning in your fireplace I hear your …
The Pinkerton Thugs This story starts out spray painted on a wall Its been…
theheadandtheheart These are just flames Burning in your fireplace I hear your …
Winona Oak I betrayed my heart for a love so ship Must cut…
Without the Accent Another bullshit story on my mouth About how my life backped…
Zeppet Store こうしてここで始まるストーリー 振り返らずに越えていこう ありふれた日々に退屈して 真っ白な旗 かかげたりして 優雅な水…
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We have lyrics for these tracks by Ernest Tubb:
A Daisy A Day He remembers the first time he met her He remembers…
A Dear John Letter Dear John oh how I hate to write dear John…
A Dime At A Time My whole life saving's a two dollar bill that's why…
A Good Year For The Wine Some people say I drink because you left me And they…
A Month Of Sundays Well, would you believe I'm as free as a breeze And…
Afraid to Care Here I go again love's standing at my door I'm so…
All Those Yesterdays What will I do with all those yesterdays where will…
Am I That Easy To Forget You say you've found somebody new but that won't stop…
Answer To Rainbow At Midnight After the war was over I was coming home to…
Answer to Walking the Floor Over You You left me and you went away You said that you'd…
Are You Mine Are you mine all life through will you kiss me…
As Long As There's A Sunday Though I can't come to see you every day It just…
Bartender Please listen to me bartender I've got something on my…
Be Glad Be glad you've got what you've got when you've got…
Before I Lost You I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time…
Before I'm Over You I just can't get it through my head you love…
Beggar to a King I had sunk as low as a man could go…
Big City I'm walking your streets again big city searching every face…
Blue Christmas I'll have a blue Christmas without you I'll be so…
Blue Eyed Elaine Side by side we'll roll along sweetheart you and I And…
Born to Lose Born to lose I've lived my life in vain every…
Bouquet Of Roses I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses, One for every…
Bring Your Heart Home Bring your heart home quit your wandering don't you get…
Candy Kisses Candy kisses wrapped in paper mean more to you than…
Careless Darlin' You said you love me and me alone and that…
Christmas I'll be walking the floor this Christmas When old Santa come…
Cold Cold Heart I tried so hard my dear to show that you're…
Commercial Affection I was lonely I guess the night that we met…
Crazy Arms Now blue ain't the world for the way that I…
Crying Time Oh it's crying time again you're gonna leave me I can…
Daddy All you want to do is sit around and pout…
Daisy Mae Oh Daisy Mae my honey oh Daisy Mae When I'm with…
Daisy May Oh Daisy Mae my honey oh Daisy Mae When I'm with…
Dear Judge The divorce had been granted and my wife was seeking…
Do It Now If you ever gonna kiss me then do it now If…
Do What You Do Do Well It amazes me how she can change my mind When it…
Don Don't be angry at me darling if I fail to…
Don't Back A Man Up In A Corner She never was much satisfied with me she's been a…
Don't Be Angry Don't be angry at me darling if I fail to…
Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age Don't be ashamed of your age Don't let the years get…
Don't Forbid Me Don't-a forbid me to hold you tight Darling, Don't Forbid…
Don't Look Now She was on her way out of your life When…
Don't Rob Another Man's Castle They say a man's home is his castle and he's…
Don't She Look Good She was on her way out of your life When…
Don't Squeeze My Sharmon Did you hear what happened last Saturday night While dancing…
Don't Trade Your Old Fashioned Sweetheart Take away the bright lights and music take away the…
Don’t Rob Another Man They say a man's home is his castle and he's…
Driftwood on the River I'm just driftwood on the river floating down the tide I…
Drivin My sweetheart has gone And I'm so lonely She said…
Drivin' Nails in My Coffin My sweetheart has gone and I'm so lonely She said…
Each Night at Nine A thousand miles dear a thousand more across the water…
Educated Mama You're an educated mama ain't that a heck of a…
Ev'rybody's Somebody's Fool The tears I cried for you could fill an ocean, But…
Even The Bad Times Are Good If there's a chance that your heart misses the words…
Everybody's Somebody's Fool The tears I cried for you could fill an ocean, But…
Family Bible There's a family Bible on the table its pages torn…
Filipino Baby When the warship's left Manila sailing proudly o'er the sea …
Fireball Mail Here she comes look at her roll there she goes…
Follow Me At the end of the day my heart's filled with…
Forgive Me I left you and left you broken hearted I left…
Fort Worth Jail Way down in Fort Worth jailhouse feeling kinda low Nobody c…
Fortunes in Memories Yes I've got lots of miles but lots of memories And…
Four Walls Out where the bright lights are glowing you're drawn like…
Fraulein Far across the blue waters Lives an old German's daughter By…
Games People Play Oh the games people now every night and every day…
Give Me A Little Old Fashioned Love Give me a little old fashioned love the kind that…
Give My Love To Rose I found him by the railroad track this morning I…
Go Home Your watching your watch and I know what's on your…
Gone All you want to do is sit around and pout…
Good Hearted Woman A long time forgotten Are dreams that just fell by the…
Goodnight Irene Irene, goodnight, Irene, goodnight, Goodnight, Irene, Goodni…
Half A Mind I don't love you like I used to do But…
Half My Heart If my heart had windows you'd see a heart full…
Have You Ever Been Lonely Have you ever been lonely? Have you ever been blue? Have…
Have You Ever Been Lonely ? Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue Have…
Have You Ever Been Lonely Have You Ever Been Blue Have you ever been lonely? Have you ever been blue? Have…
Have You Ever Been Lonley Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue Have…
He Give when you give the best of your service Telling the…
He'll Have To Go Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Let's…
Hello Trouble Woke up this morning happy as could be look out…
Help Me Make It Through The Night Take the ribbon from your hair Shake it loose and let…
Hey Good Lookin Say hey good lookin' whatcha got cooking how's about cooking…
Holding On To Nothing We're holding on with nothin' left to hold on to I'm…
Holding Things Together Holding things together ain't no easy thing to do When it…
How Can I Be Sure You only want to break my heart once more with…
I I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time…
I Believe I'm Entitled To You Through the years I've prepared feeling sure that you cared …
I Can I just come into this bar To have a quick…
I Can't Help It Today I passed you on the street and my heart…
I Chased You Till You Caught Me I chased you till you caught me you had plans…
I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You Everybody says you let me down I should be ashamed…
I Dreamed Of An Old Love Affair Just like old time you were here last night and…
I Got The Blues For Mammy I've got the blues for mammy and mammy's got the…
I Hope I I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time…
I Love You Because I love you because you understand dear Every single thing…
I Love You So Much It Hurts I love you so much it hurts me darling that's…
I Loved You Once I'll not let you worry me nor will I shed…
I Met A Friend I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time…
I Need Attention Bad Well I took you to the station to leave on…
I Never Had The One I Wanted Everybody says you let me down I should be ashamed…
I Reached for the Wine My eyes are perfect but now I see I'm blind Because…
I Saw The Light I wandered so aimless Life filled with sin I wouldn't…
I Started Loving You Again Today I started loving you again I'm right back where…
I Told You So So your new love let your feelings sad and blue And…
I Walk The Line I keep a close watch on this heart of mine…
I Want You To Know There ain't no chains strong enough to hold me ain't…
I Will Miss You When You Go I will miss you when you go much more than…
I Wonder Why I Worry Over You Dear you're not worth to what it takes to mention…
I Wonder Why You Said Goodbye Your letter came this very day and it wiped all…
I'll Always Be Glad to Take You Back After you have finished all your runnin' round and you…
I'll Be There There ain't no chains strong enough to hold me ain't…
I'll Be Walking the Floor This Christmas I'll be walking the floor this Christmas When old Santa come…
I'll Get Along Somehow Many months have come and gone since you called me…
I'll Go on Alone I will miss you when you go much more than…
I'll Never Tell You I Love You I'll never tell you I love you I'll never say…
I'll Step Aside I'll step aside for you if you don't want me…
I'm A Long Gone Daddy All you want to do is sit around and pout…
I'm Bitin' My Fingernails Bitin' my fingernails thinking of you don't love nobody else…
I'm Free At Last I'm free at last from love and all its worry…
I'm Gonna Tie One on Tonight Things down at my house just ain't going right I'm…
I'm In Love With Molly Today I passed you on the street and my heart…
I'm Living In Sunshine You bring me sunshine beautiful sunshine I'm living in sunsh…
I'm Lonely And Blue Have you ever been lonely? Have you ever been blue? Have…
I'm Missing You Through the years I've prepared feeling sure that you cared …
I'm Movin' On That big eight wheeler rollin' down the track Means your tru…
I'm So Afraid of Losing you Again Sometimes I want to throw my arms around you And I…
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hear that lonesome whippoorwill he sounds too blue to fly T…
I'm Sorry Now Because you love me I broke your heart dear I wasn't…
I'm The One Who Loves You Today I passed you on the street and my heart…
I'm Waiting For Ships That Never Come In I'm waiting for ships that never come in just watching…
I'm With A Crowd Tonight with another I'm dancing and we're smiling at the…
I've Got A New Heartache I just come into this bar To have a quick…
I've Got The Blues For Mammy I've got the blues for mammy and mammy's got the…
If My Heart Had Windows If my heart had windows you'd see a heart full…
If We Put Our Heads Together When I'm cryin', just cryin' over what we've become That's …
If You Don There ain't no chains strong enough to hold me ain't…
If You Don't Quit Checkin' On Me You can't hardly wait till I get home You go through…
Ill Be Walking the Floor This Christmas I'll be walking the floor this Christmas When old Santa come…
In the Jailhouse Now He's in the jailhouse now he's in the jailhouse now I…
It It's been so long darling since I had to go…
It's A Lonely World It's a lonely world when you're all alone When there's no…
It's Been So Long Darlin' It's been so long darling since I had to go…
It's Not Love I love you so much it hurts me darling that's…
It's The Age That Makes The Difference When I was just a little boy and life was…
It's Time To Pay The Fiddler Well it's time to pay the fiddler and it's sad…
Jealous Loving Heart Don't ever kiss no one but me If you do,…
Journey Each night brings back My dreams of you I cry…
Journey's End Each night brings back My dreams of you I cry…
Just A Drink Away See that girl at the bar she just took my…
Just Between The Two Of Us Just between the two of us we know our love…
Just One More Just give me one more memory that's all I ask…
Kansas City Blues Lord I wish I was a catfish swimmin' in the…
Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming In Didn't want to be no soldier didn't want to leave…
Last Night I Dreamed I had a dream last night I dreamed you held…
Leave Them Boys Alone Now they say, Hank Jr. has strayed away Of all them…
Let Darling let's turn back my years and go back to…
Let the World Keep on a Turnin' Let the world keep on a turnin' let the fire…
Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hallo in a Friendly Sort of Way Let's say goodbye like we said hello in a friendly…
Let's Stop Right Where We Are I know you've had a change of heart the way…
Let's Turn Back The Years Darling let's turn back my years and go back to…
Let's Wait A Little Longer I can see you are not happy the way you've…
Letters Have No Arms I just got your letter dearest sweetheart And darlin', I mis…
Life Had Turned Her That Way If she seems cold and bitter I beg of you Just…
Lonely Christmas Eve I'm not so bad I just hate to see a good…
Loose Talk So long we've been married last burdens we've carried Though…
Lots of Luck My heart will break as I watch you go but…
Love Is No Excuse Love is no excuse for what we're doing For we both…
Love Lifted Me Give me a little old fashioned love the kind that…
Making Believe Making believe that you still love me and it's leaving…
Mansion On The Hill Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and oh…
Married Man Blues Listen all you rounder's take a tip from me Listen all…
May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose One fine day as I was walking down the street I…
Mean Mama Blues There's lots of mean women on almost any street Lord There'…
Memphis Long distance information give me Memphis Tennessee Help me …
Merry Texas Christmas You All We have no jingle bells or sleigh To display on Christmas…
Miles In Memories Yes I've got lots of miles but lots of memories And…
Mind Your Business If the wife and I are fussin' brother that's our…
and many more tracks by Ernest Tubb.
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