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Conway Twitty
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Now I was born down in Friars Point, Mississippi
And I know all of you know exactly where Friars Point, Mississippi is
But just in case you don't, I'm gonna tell you anyway
It's about sixty miles south of Memphis, Tennessee
Right on the Mississippi River
And I lived there until I was about ten years old
And then I moved way up north
About ten miles
Over into Helena, Arkansas
And I spent all my growing up years in those two towns
And the kinds of music that I was subjected to back then
Of course naturally was country music
And then there was gospel music
And then there was a, another music
That was born right there where I was
I mean literally born right in Helena and Friars Point and that area
A great old music called blues
And I always thought that was sort of a second cousin to country music
Because of the tremendous feel that it has
And growing up about thirty miles away from me over there
In Tupelo, Mississippi was Elvis
And he was listening to the same kind of stuff
And although I'd had my own band since I was
And my own radio show too since I was ten years old
And played for all kinds of things around where I lived there
For all those years I never once thought
About country music as a profession
I guess the thought of competing with people
Who were my heroes just never crossed my mind
Sort of had 'em up on a pedestal like that
And you couldn't quite reach that back then
But when Elvis came along and started that rock and roll stuff
I said, "Hey, now I think I can do that
Or just a little bit, I think I can do it"
So I jumped in there with Elvis and Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis
And Charlie Rich and Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins and people like that
And I stayed in the rock thing for about ten years
And did pretty good, had a lot of gold
Records and all that kind of stuff
But I always knew I was doing my second best
And from time to time I'd wonder just how good could I do
If I was doing what I do best
And that's country music
So in 1965 I finally reached the point to where I said
"Well, maybe I've, maybe now I've lived long enough
And experienced enough of the things that a country song's all about
To be able to jump in there and
Compete with my heroes in country music
And maybe even do justice to a country song"
So I decided to make the switch
And the rest as they say is country music history
I enjoyed what I did back then
But I love what I'm doing now and there's a big difference
And when you hear a Conway Twitty song
You certainly hear country music
But you also hear a little gospel
And you hear a little rock and roll
Like the Ruby song we did a while ago
And also you hear a little blues
And we've chosen a song from one of
Our albums from a couple of years back
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