Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson is a tribute album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records. Released in January 1967, it is a collection of songs written by Country Music Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Don Gibson who, like Orbison, often wrote about the loneness and sorrow that love can bring.
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“Tell her that goes
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But sings not out the song, nor knows
The maker of it, some other mouth,
May be as fair as hers,”
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