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Walking The Floor Over You
You left me and you went away In 1948 he was the first singer to record a hit version
you said that you’d be back in just a day of Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson’s “Blue Christmas”,
You’ve broken your promise a song more commonly associated with Elvis Pres-
and you left me here alone ley and his late-1950s version. Another well-known
I don’t know why you did dear Tubb hit was “Waltz Across Texas” (1965) (written by
but I do know that you’re gone his nephew Quanah Talmadge Tubb, known
professionally as Billy Talmadge), which became
I’m walking the floor over you one of his most requested songs and is often used in
I can’t sleep a wink that is true dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons.
I’m hoping and I’m praying Tubb recorded duets with the then up-and-coming
as my heart breaks right in two Loretta Lynn in the early 1960s, including their hit
I’m walking the floor over you “Sweet Thang”. Tubb is a member of the Country
Music Hall of Fame.
Now darling you know I love you
well I love you more than I could ever tell Tubb never possessed the best voice: he always sang
I thought that you wanted me flat, and actually mocked his own singing. He told
and always would be mine an interviewer that 95 percent of the men in bars
But you went and left me here would hear his music on the juke box and say to their
with trouble on my mind girlfriends, “I can sing better than him,” and Tubb
added they would be right. In fact, he missed some
I’m walking the floor over you... notes horribly on some recordings. When Tubb was
recording “You Don’t Have to Be a Baby to Cry” in
Now someday you may be lonesome too 1949 and tried to hit a low note, Red Foley, his duet
walking the floor is good for you partner at the time, was sitting in the booth when
Well just keep right on walking honey somebody said, “I bet you wish you could hit that
and it won’t hurt your pride low note.” Foley replied, “I bet Ernest wishes he could
Remember that I loved you and I will till I die hit that note.” The two, who released seven albums
together, maintained a friendly on-air “feud” over the
I’m walking the floor over you... years, and Tubb appeared on Foley’s Ozark Jubilee on
I’m walking the floor over you ABC-TV.
I’m walking the floor over you
In 1957 he walked into the lobby of the National
Source: Musixmatch Life Building in Nashville and fired a .357 magnum,
Songwriters: Ernest Tubb intending to shoot music producer Jim Denny. Tubb
I’m Walking the Floor Over You lyrics © Unichappell shot at the wrong man but did not hit anyone. He
Music Inc., Campbell Connelly And Co. Ltd., Elvis was arrested and charged with public drunkenness.
Presley Music Inc., Unichappell Music O/b/o Elvis
Presley Music, Unichappell Music, Inc., Elvis Presley Beginning in the fall of 1965, he hosted a half-hour
Music, Inc. TV program, The Ernest Tubb Show, which aired
in first-run syndication for three years. That same
To listen follow this link... year, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall
of Fame; and in 1970, Tubb was inducted into the
rnest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
E6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was
an American singer and songwriter and one of the (Source Wikipedia)
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.
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