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If You Don't Come Back

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(Leiber / Stoller)

Information:
The Drifters originally recorded this Jerry Leiber-Mike Stoller tune in 1963 (Atlantic 2191). Elvis recorded If You Don’t Come Back on July 21, 1973.

Lyrics:

(Woke up early in the morning)
(What did the poor boy find)
Well the car was gone and you were gone
And I almost lost my mind
If you don't come back (if you don't come back)
Hum, if you don't come back today (if you don't come back today)
You can call up the people at the crazy house
And take this crazy man away

(He threw himself off a gas stone wall)
(He tore his clothes out the door)
I ran out on the street in my stocking feet
Tell the police I've been robbed
If you don't come back (if you don't come back)
Hum, if you don't come back today (if you don't come back today)
Well you can call up the people at the crazy house
And take this crazy man away

Mrs. Brown's been talking about me
To the people across the street
She said (I cooked that boy a pot full of stew,
But the poor thing just won't eat)

If you don't come back (if you don't come back)
Hum, if you don't come back today (if you don't come back today)
You can call up the people at the crazy house
And take this crazy man away

Where it was released:

Released for the fist time on Raised on Rock »

LPs/CDs:

- Raised on Rock (1973) »

- Essential Elvis, Volume 5 – Rhythm and Country (1998)

- Made in Memphis (2006) - FTD »

- Raised on Rock (2007) – FTD »  

- Our Memories of Elvis, Volume 1, 2 & 3 (2012) - FTD »

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