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	Current version of Elvis Presley Lyrics Are you Lonesome Tonight (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/e/elvis-presley/are-you-lonesome-to...) Current version of the lyrics						Version 1 of Elvis Presley Lyrics Are you Lonesome Tonight (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/e/elvis-presley/are-you-lonesome-to...) Version 1 of the lyrics
1	(Oooo, ooo, ooo, ooo-oo-oo-ooo.)						Are you lonesome tonight,	1
2							do you miss me tonight?	2
1	Are you lonesome tonight?							1
2	Do you miss me tonight?							2
	Are you sorry we drifted apart?						Are you sorry we drifted apart?
3	Does your memory stray,						Does your memory stray to a brighter sunny day	3
4	To a bright, summer day,						When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?	4
5	When I kissed you,						Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?	5
6	And called you sweetheart?						Do         you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?	6
7							Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?	7
8	Do the chairs in your parlor,						Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?	8
3	Seem empty and bare?							3
4	Do you gaze at your doorstep,							4
5	And picture me there?							5
6	Is your heart filled with pain?							6
7	Shall I come back again?							7
8	Tell me dear,							8
9	Are you lonesome tonight?							9
9	[Spoken with backup singers crooning in the background:]						I wonder if you're lonesome tonight	9
10	I wonder if you're lonesome tonight?						You know someone said that the world's a stage	10
10	You know someone said that the world's a stage,							10
	And each must play a part.						And each must play a part.
11	Fate had me playing in love with you as my sweetheart.						Fate had me playing in love       you as my sweet heart.	11
12							Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance	12
13	Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance.						You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue	13
14	You read your lines so cleverly             and never missed a cue.						Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange	14
15	Then came act two, you seemed to change, you acted strange,						And why I'll never know.	15
16	And why I've never know.						Honey, you lied when you said you loved me	16
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12	Honey, you lied when you said you loved me.							12
	And I had no cause to doubt you.						And I had no cause to doubt you.
17	But I'd rather go on hearing your lies,						But I'd rather go on hearing your lies	17
18	Than to go on living without you.						Than     go on living without you.	18
19							Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there	19
20	Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there,						With emptiness all around	20
21	With emptiness all around.						And if you won't come back to me	21
22	And if you won't come back to me,						Then make them bring the curtain down.	22
13	Then they can bring the curtain down.							13
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15	[Sung:]							15
16	Is your heart filled with pain?							16
17	Shall I come back again?							17
18	Tell me dear,							18
19	Are you lonesome tonight?							19
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22	[ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?[1]]							22
23	[Written by: Lou Handman & Roy Turk-1926]							23
24	[Performed by: Elvis Presley[2]-1964]							24
25	[Appears on: Are You Lonesome Tonight? (7" Single)-1960, The '68 Comeback							25
26	Special (Video)-1968, Elvis' Golden Records-1964, Elvis Forever-1974, Elvis							26
27	Aron Presley-1980, The Collection-1984, The Number One Hits-1987, Best Artist							27
28	of the Century-2000, The Very Best of Love-2001, 30 #1 Hits (1956-1976)-2003,							28
29	Malt Shop Memories: Juke Box Gems (Various Artists)-2006[3], et al.]							29
30								30
31	[1]During live performances, Elvis would occasionally change the lyrics just							31
32	to be funny. One popular instance was recorded in Las Vegas in 1969. During							32
33	the performance, instead of singing, "Do you gaze at your doorstep and							33
34	picture me there?" he sings, "Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had							34
35	hair?" Then he burst into laughter which continued into the next lines.							35
36	Meanwhile the band and backup singers continued to keep the song going.							36
37	Hearing the solo backing singer, whose falsetto remained resolute throughout,							37
38	Elvis was again overcome by laughter. So overtaken, Elvis encourages the							38
39	backup singer to, "Sing it, baby," drawing even more laughter which nearly							39
40	brings the house down. Elvis sais at the end, "That's it, man, fourteen years							40
41	right down the drain...boy, I'll tell ya." The version is considered to be a							41
42	popular underground classic.]							42
43								43
44	[2]A number of artists recorded "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" In 1927, composer							44
45	Lou Handman himself played piano while his sister Edith provided the vocals.							45
46	Vaughn DeLeath (also known as "The Original Radio Girl") recorded the song							46
47	twice, in June and September. Another version was released by famed tenor							47
48	Henry Burr. The first charting version was recorded in 1950 by Blue Barron.							48
49	Only a few weeks after Barron's recording, Al Jolson recorded a version of							49
50	the song in April of 1950. In 1959, Jaye P. Morgan recorded it while Elvis							50
51	was in the Army. This led to the best-known recording, recorded on April 4,							51
52	1960, by Elvis. It went on to be one of the biggest-selling singles of 1960,							52
53	peaking at number one on the Billboard pop chart for six weeks. Other							53
54	noteable covers are, Pat Boone, Doris Day, The E Connection, Connie Francis,							54
55	Jackie Gleason, Merle Haggard, Engelbert Humperdinck, Bryan Hyland, The							55
56	Jordanaires, Barry Manilow, Al Martino, Anne Murray, The Osmonds, Leon							56
57	Redbone, Jeannie C. Riley, Tiny Tim, Dottie West, Lawrence Welk, Ted							57
58	Williams, et al.]							58
	[3]Transcribed from the track on this album.]						Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
1							Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?	1

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