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It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)

(Neal Merritt / Alice Joy Merritt / Shorty Hall)


Copyright Central Songs

Original by Charlie Louvin in 1968


RCA studio session - June 4-8, 1970 - RCA's Studio B - Nashville

 June 6, 6-9 pm, 10 pm-1 am, 1:30-4:30 am

ZPA4 1607-09


Overdub sessions for RCA - July 18, 1970 - RCA's Studio A - Nashville

 ZPA4 1607-09
June 1971 LP RCA LSP 4530 Love Letters From Elvis
Outtakes:
Takes 1 (fs), 2, 3 (fs), 4 (fs), 5 (fs) and 6: August 11 2008 CD FTD 88697 29701-2 Love Letters From Elvis
Take 2: July 30, 1996 CD RCA 66866-2 A Hundred Years From Now Essential Elvis Vol 4
Take 6: July 23, 2002 CD FTD 74321 95046-2 The Nashville Marathon





Your losing interest in me and it's showin'
It ain't no big thing but it's growin'
The pain of heartbreak I've just started knowin'
Well, it ain't no big thing but it's growin'


Every day the hurt grows bigger than before
But I'll pretend I don't know this
But If I can hold you one day more
You've got the look of someone who's goin'
You're gonna leave me and it's showin'
A little tear I can feel start to flow
It ain't no big thing but it's growin'


Well every day the hurt grows bigger than before
But I'll pretend I don't know this
Well, if I can hold you one day more
You've got the look of someone who's goin'
Well, you're gonna leave me and it's showin'
A little tear I can feel start to flow
Well it ain't no big thing but it's growing
No, it ain't no big thing but it's growing 


(Alternate Take 2)
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Standard tuning.
    Intro:  D
                D           G          D
    Your losing interest in me and it's showin'
               A                  D
    It ain't no big thing but it's growin'
                D               G           D
    The pain of heartbreak I've just started knowin'
                     A                  D
    Well, it ain't no big thing but it's growin'

          G                              D
    Every day the hurt grows bigger than before
                G
    But I'll pretend I don't know this
             E                A
    If I can hold you one day more
                   D       G            D
    You've got the look of someone who's goin'
                A                 D
    You're gonna leave me and it's showin'
             D          G            D
    A little tear I can feel start to flow
               A                  D
    It ain't no big thing but it's growin'

    (Solo)

               G                              D
    Well every day the hurt grows bigger than before
                G
    But I'll pretend I don't know this
             E                A
    If I can hold you one day more
                   D       G            D
    You've got the look of someone who's goin'
                A                 D
    You're gonna leave me and it's showin'
             D          G            D
    A little tear I can feel start to flow
                     A                  D
    Well, it ain't no big thing but it's growin'
               A                  D
    It ain't no big thing but it's growing, growing, growing, growing