Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Elvis Presley, 1960, words & music by Roy Turk and Lou Handman

 

Are you lonesome tonight

Do you miss me tonight

Are you sorry we drifted apart

Does your memory stray to a brighter sunny day

When I kissed you and called you sweetheart

Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare

Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there

Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again

Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight

 

I wonder if you're lonesome tonight

You know someone said that the world's a stage

And each must play a part

Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart

Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance

You read your lines so cleverly and never missed a cue

Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange

And why I'll never know

Honey, you lied when you said you loved me

And I had no cause to doubt you

But I'd rather go on hearing your lies

Than go on living without you

Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there

With emptiness all around

And if you won't come back to me

Then make them bring the curtain down

 

Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again

Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight

 

 

Sessionography: Recorded April 4, 1960, at RCA studios, Nashville, TN

 

Engineer: Bill Porter

Guitar: Scotty Moore

Guitar: Hank Garland

Guitar: Elvis Presley

Bass: Bob Moore

Drums: D.J. Fontana

Drums: Buddy Harman

Piano: Floyd Cramer

Sax: Boots Randolph

Lead Vocal: Elvis Presley

Backup Vocals: The Jordanaires

Session hours: 4:00AM-7:00AM Recorded in studio B