Patsy Cline–Leavin on your mind

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For our second post, we’d like to point you to a lovely but bittersweet song that Patsy recorded with Owen Bradley. Notice the timing and phrasing is stretched out, much like the off-beat of blues phrasing. Here are the lyrics:

If you got leavin’ on your mind
Tell me now, get it over
Hurt me now, get it over
If you got leavin’ on your mind
If there’s a new love in your heart
Tell me now, get it over
Hurt me now, get it over
If there’s a new love in your heart
Don’t leave me here, in a world
Filled with dreams that might have been
Hurt me now, get it over
I may learn to love again
If there’s a new love in your heart
Tell me now, get it over
Hurt me now, get it over
If there’s a new love in your heart
Hurt me now, get it over
If there’s a new love in your heart