Chords for Jim Reeves' Manager Reveals Private Secrets.

[D] _ _ _ _ _
Dancing, romancing, always on [A] the go, sun shining down on [D] Mexican Joe.
_ [N] I saw this record, Mexican Joe, coming up through charts and the [A#] record became just a real, real big [Gm] hit.
Now he [Cm] has two or [Gm] three offers and major record comes.
[A#] And after he made the record deal and decided he was coming to Nashville,
[N] he came to town and I met him and he was wearing a western cowboy outfit.
When he got into Nashville, I said, hey, I think those things have got to go.
And we went down to one of the downtown men's clothing stores
and I picked him out a sport coat and half cut boots
_ and sort of, not exactly a western, but a gentleman's type shirt that I wanted him to wear.
And I said, you need to be a refined gentleman.
I hope he doesn't come up and warp me for this,
but when he came in to Nashville to live and make his move to join the Grand Ole Opry,
I said, Jim, I said, you know, when they see you on the Grand Ole Opry
for the first time, that's the way they're going to remember you.
So you're going to have to decide whether you're going to wear a toupee
or are you going to just come like you are?
And he thought about it and I said, you can't come up here one night and wear it
and then the next night not wear it.
I said, there'll be no acceptance.
I said, make up your mind how you're going to go.
He chose [A#] the toupee.
Have _ I told you lately [F] when I'm sleeping _
_ Every dream I dream is [A#] you somehow
_ [Fm] _
Have I [D#] told you why the [Gm] nights are long when you're not [A#] with [A] me
[F] My darling, I'm telling [A#] you now
[N] I guess since the beginning of time, the word love could almost be traded for the word trouble
because as a very wise man once said, the course of true love never runs smoothly.
And that's kind of the theme of this song.
I suppose almost every fella has sat in a phone booth at one time or another
and tried to kind of smooth things out with his girlfriend.
Let's see how I make out.
I cautioned him.
I said, Jim, I said, you'll have to go slow with this song.
And he was really very patient guy.
Rarely ever.
I never knew him to curse.
And he was walking the floor and he was singing.
And I said, it's got to be much slower, you know.
And _ _ he said, well, if I get any slower, he said, I'll never make it through that thing, you know.
And he says, why don't you continue managing?
Let me sing.
I tried to sing for him and I said, I want the thing to go.
He said, I'll [C#] never make it.
I said, Jim, it'll [G#] seem like it's eternity.
But [C#] do what I say.
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[C#] Put your sweet lips a [F#] little closer [C#] to the phone. _ _ _
Let's pretend that we're together [G#] all alone.
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[C#] I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox [F#] way down low. _
And [C#] you can tell your [G#] friend there with you, he'll [C#] have to go.
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[C] [C#] Whisper to me, [F#] tell me, do you [C#] love me true? _ _ _
Or is he holding you the [G#] way I do? _
Though [C#] love is blind, make up your mind, [F#] I've got to know. _ _
[C#] Should I hang up or will [G#] you tell him?
[C#] He'll have to go. _ _ _
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