L. Carr/D. Raye
You Nearly Lose Your Mind
E. Tubb
Blues Stay Away From Me
A. Delmore/R. Delmore/W. Raney/H. Glover

In the evenin', in the evenin'
Baby, when the sun goes down
In the evenin', in the evenin'
Baby, when the sun goes down
Ain't it lonesome, ain't it lonesome
When your baby can't be found

Well, now if you love your baby
And you treat him right

I'd have time on my hands
Time to make some plans
Time to take a different point of view
I'd have time to be alone
Time to stay out all night long
But you know
I'm too busy being blue

I'd have time to fool around
Time to paint the town
Time to spend each night with someone new
Time to take a walk
Time to sit and talk
But you know
I'm too busy being blue

The coffee's all gone
And my eyes burn like fire
It's way past the hour
When most folks retire
You told me you'd call me
But you haven't yet
And I'm down to my last cigarette

I'm down to my last cigarette
For I know what made you forget
You're still out there somewhere
With someone you met
And I'm down to my last cigarette

I can't leave this room
You might call while I'm gone

Tears don't care who cries them
They don't care at all
Any time a heart starts breaking
They will fall and fall
Rich man, poor man, beggar
Tears can fill each eye
They don't care who cries them
You just cry, cry, cry

[Chorus:]
Once my love and dreams
Were in your keeping
Then you walked away
With someone new
Once you laughed at me
When (While) I was weeping
What happened to me

[Chorus:]
Don't let the stars get in your eyes
Don't let the moon break your heart
Love blooms at night
In daylight it dies
Don't let the stars get in your eyes
Oh keep your heart for me
For someday I'll return
And you know (see) you're the only one
I'll ever love

Too many nights, too many stars
Too many moons could change your mind
If I'm gone too long

I'm a shadow since you're gone
Just a shadow in the dawn
That breaks in the sand
A shadow lost in shadowland
My poor heart just flew away
When it realized one day
The dreams that we planned
Would only end in shadowland

I always wondered
Why you had to go
Whatever blunder I mad
I don't know
I guess that something
Turned out wrong
Didn't quite belong
In this lover's song

I'm feelin' mighty lonesome
Haven't slept a wink
I walk the floor from nine to four
In between I drink
Black coffee
Love's a hand-me-down brew
I'll never know a Sunday
In this weekday room

I'm talkin to the shadow
One o'clock till four
And Lord, how slow the moments go
And all I do is pour
Black coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hangin' out on Monday

Waltz me once again
"Round that dance floor
Make my head go spinnin' 'roud
Dance me over by that bandstand
'Cause I love that twin fiddle sound

When we're dancin' close
Cheek to cheek
My head gets woozy
And my knees get weak
Waltz me once again
'Round that dance floor
Make my head go spinnin' 'round
It's Friday night
And the joint is swingin'
Inside these swingin' doors

Someday I won't come runnin'
When you call
The way you hurt me
It's a wonder I'm still here at all
Someday you'll wake up
And you'll find yourself alone
Lock, stock and teardrops
I'll be gone

I can't go on
The way you make me feel
You make me cry
And every time expect me to forgive

Someday you'll wake up
To a cold and lonely dawn
Lock, stock and teardrops
I'll be gone

Western stars light up the sky
Hear the desert wind roll by
Tonight, tonight

Western stars can break your heart
They keep shinin' when we're apart
Tonight, tonight
I watch, I wait
How long will my heart ache
Tonight, oh tonight
I watch, I wait
My heart is bound to break
Tonight

Western stars light up the sky
Tonight I'm alone to cry
Tonight

I watch, I wait

I wish I didn't love you so
My love for you
Should have ended long ago

I wish I didn't need your kiss
Why must your kiss
Torture me as long as this
I might be smiling by now
With some new tender friend
Smiling by now
With my heart on the mend
But when I try
Something in my heart says no
You're still there
I wish I didn't love you so

I might be smiling by now

When it's sugarcane time
And around about June
I'll be walkin' with my sugar
'Neath that old sugar moon
All the lovin' I missed
I'll be gettin' it soon
I'll be gettin' it from my sugar
'Neath that old sugar moon

I can see us right now
Get the calendar down
(And) Draw a circle around
The day we're heaven bound
When it's sugarcane time
And around about June