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It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'
(Johnny Tillotson)

Copyright Ridge Music Corp.

Original by Johnny Tillotson in 1962

RCA studio session - February 17-22, 1969 - American Studios - Memphis
February 20, 9:30-12:30 am

XPA5 1273-03

Overdub session for RCA - March 21, 1969 - American Sound - Memphis
XPA5 1273-03

Overdub session for RCA - March 25, 1969 - RCA Studio A - Nashville
XPA5 1273-03 Remake

May 1969 LP RCA LSP 4155 From Elvis In Memphis
Re-mixed version:

June 30, 1987 CD RCA 6221-2-R The Memphis Record
Outtakes:

Takes 1, 2 and 3 unfinished master: April 2013 CD FTD 506020 975047 From Elvis In Memphis

Take 2: April 12, 1999 CD RCA 07863 67677-2 Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology

I cry myself to sleep each night
Wishing I could hold you tight
Life seems so empty since you went away
And the pillow where you lay your head
Now holds my empty dreams instead
And it keeps right on a-hurtin'
Since you're gone

* It keeps right on a'hurtin every minute of the day
Every hour you're away I feel so lonely
And I can't help it, I don't think I can go on
And it keeps right on a-hurtin' since you're gone

They say a man ain't supposed to cry
But when I see you passing by
My heart braks down and cries a million tears
The pillow where you lay your head
Now holds my empty dreams instead
And it keeps right on a-hurtin' since you're gone

* Repeat
Yes, it keeps right on a-hurtin' since you're gone