The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Like a river flows surely to the sea/Darling so it goes/Some things are meant to be/Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can't help falling in love with you.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

I love only one girl, one in every town.