Tampa Red – A Lie In My Heart lyrics

A Lie In My Heart Trk 15 Dsc 2 3: 09 song 39
Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) And The Chicago Five
Aurora, Illinois, March 14, 1938 Leland Hotel Top Floor
Tampa Red- vocal,& guitar, unk - trumpet (coronet)
Poss. Bill Owsley - tenor sax, prob. Blind John Davis - piano
Unk string bass (poss. Imitation sb)
Album: The Bluebird Recordings - Tampa Red 1936 - 1938
2 Disc set rca 07863 66722-2 1997 bmg

I may be wrong to say, I love you
I'll put your day in the dark
But it's better to say, I love you
Than to live with a lie in my heart

And though I know you didn't want me
I played a fool at the start
But it's better to say, I love you
Than to live with a lie in my heart

Though I may pretend I'm gay
And hide away in a magic house of my own
Hopin' that you may someday return and say
'I'm sorry I left you alone, dear'

I may be wrong to say, 'i miss you'
Or watch your view from afar
But it's better to say, I love you
Than to live with a lie in my heart

'Yas, swing cat'

(piano & clapping)

'Uh-huh, yeah'

'Tickle that thing, boy'

'Oh, ain't that pretty?
Yowsir

(sax)

'i hear ya Mr. Sax Man'

'Uh-huh, oh yeah'

'Oh yeah'

(coronet)

'i hear ya Mr. Coronet Man'

Though I may pretend I'm gay
And hide away in a magic house of my own
Hopin' that you may someday return and say
'I'm sorry I left you alone, dear'

I may be wrong to say, 'i miss you'
Or watch your view from afar
But it's better to say, I love you
Than to live with a lie in my heart.

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