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If You Don't Come Back
(Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller)

Copyright Jerry Leiber Music/Mike Stoller Music

Original by The Drifters in 1963

RCA studio session - July 20-25, 1973 - Stax Studios - Memphis
July 21, 9 pm-3 am

CPA5 4761-09

September 1973 LP RCA APBO 0088 Raised On Rock
Overdubbed master without some instruments:

March 6, 2012 CD FTD 506020-975038 Our Memories Of Elvis Vol 1, 2 & 3 - The Pure Elvis Sound
Outtakes:

Takes 1 (fs), 2 (fs), 3, 8 (fs) and 6: August 1, 2007 CD FTD 88697 12843-2 Raised On Rock

Take 3: August 11, 1998 CD RCA BMG 07863 67672-2 Rhythm And Country - Essential Elvis Vol. 5

Take 5: April 1, 2006 CD FTD 82876 76965-2 Elvis Presley Made In Memphis

(Woke up early in the morning)
(What did the poor boy find)
Well the car was gone and you were gone
And I almost lost my mind.
If you don't come back (If you don't come back)
Yeh! if you don't come back today (If you don't come back today)
You can call up the people at the crazy house
And take this crazy man away

(He threw himself off a gas stone wall) ?????????????
(He tore his clothes out the door) ?????????????
I ran out on the street in my stockinged feet
Tell the police I've been robbed
If you don't come back (If you don't come back)
Mmm if you don't come back today (If you don't come back today)
Well you can call up the people at the crazy house
And take this crazy man away

Mrs Brown's been talking about me
To the people across the street
She said (I cooked that boy a bucket of stew ?????????????
but the bear came just for me) ?????????????

If you don't come back (If you don't come back)
Yeh! If you don't come back today (If you don't come back today)
You can call up the people at the crazy house
And take this crazy man away