Dad First Loved Eddy, Then Willie

Make the world go away Get it off my shoulders Say the things you used to say And make the world go away — Made famous by Eddy Arnold, written by Hank Cochran |———| Eddy Arnold was known as the Tennessee Plowboy, back when the music industry loved to hang nicknames on singers. Arnold, born in 1918, grew up on a farm that his dad sharecropped until he died when Eddy was just 11. He had to drop out of school to help on the family farm. His dad had been a fiddle player, and his mom played guitar, so he naturally took to music and began playing at school functions and other events. Legend...

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