Worried Mind tab - daffan ted

Date: 10/13/96; 10:43:55 AM
From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham)
Subject: WORRIED MIND


WORRIED MIND
Recorded by Ted Daffan
Words and music by Ted Daffan and J. Davis

[D] You promised me love - that would never [G] die
That promise you [D] made - was only a [A] lie
Now [D] after you've gone - all alone I'll [G] pine
For all that I've [D] got - [A] is a Worried [D] Mind

I gave you a ring - I gave you a home
You promised me true - that you'd never roam
I bought you find clothes - and I bought you wine
But all that you gave - is a Worried Mind.

And when I was down - you just left me there
I needed you so - but you didn't care
You found a new love - and a home so fine
But all that I've got - is a Worried Mind.

REPEAT 1st VERSE

Note.  One of the best selling records of 1940. 2nd only to Bob Will's 
       million-selling "San Antonio Rose."

Source:  Encylcopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music.

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BORN TO LOSE
My interpretation of this great old song. Ted Daffan Remember the old country song, "Born to Lose?" The sad tale of a luckless lover, the song was introduced in 1942, but it wasn¹t until 1962, when Ray Charles recorded the song, that it soared to the top of the music charts as a million dollar hit with these words: Born to lose, I've lived my life in vain Every dream has only brought me pain All my life, I've always been so blue Born to lose and now I'm losing you The song also became a part of America¹s vocabulary -- the synonym for hard luck. Even Frank & Ernie used in a famous cartoon where St. Peter asks a newcomer to Heaven, "Is it true that in a previous life you were a French painter?" The newcomer¹s reply: "Yes, I was born Toulose." The original composer of the old standard, East Texan Ted Daffan, has been forgotten by most country music fans, but he was anything but a flash in the pan. Daffan, who lived in Lufkin, was a band leader, a musician, a singer, a recording artist and a songwriter. His career spanned more than 40 years and he continued to publish songs until his death in his eighties. Daffan played steel guitar with bands in the Houston area before starting his own band, Ted Daffan and His Texans. As a band leader, he pioneered the use of the steel guitar as a lead instrument and in solos, a departure from the traditional fiddle sounds used by most country bands. Daffan's clean, distinctive sound -- which combined blues and swing -- and his songs ...