song = I was just walking out the door

c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 15 Sep 2005 3:19 am

Our lead singer keeps getting requests for this song. He says its an old Hank Thompson song. I have heard it many moons ago but cant remember it. I have searched cow pie and others. no luck. Please help if yopu can. CC

Mike Headrick · Post by **Mike Headrick** » 15 Sep 2005 4:50 am

Here ya go:
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/I-Was-Just-Walkin'-Out-The-Door-lyrics-Jerry-Reed/CEF789E487ABD6D848256E63000F49C0

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Bill R. Baker · Post by **Bill R. Baker** » 15 Sep 2005 5:08 am

The first person I ever heard sing this tune was Wade Ray.

c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 15 Sep 2005 5:34 am

thanks Mike and Bill.Bill I agreenow. I heardWade do this song in the 40s on KMOX in St Louis with Pappy Cheshire for Uncle Dick Slack furniture. I can remember the first two lines melody but then I'm lost. Any one know the chords. Any Key? CC

c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 15 Sep 2005 3:06 pm

thanks so much to all of you who responded. Isn't this forum great. I never realized this song was so well known. CC

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 15 Sep 2005 7:09 pm

I have an old 45 of it done by Rip Edwards ar Ripcord Records in VAnWa in the 60s, I think Gene Brown might have been in on it.

I didn't know myself where it originally came from.

EJL

Mitch Drumm · Post by **Mitch Drumm** » 15 Sep 2005 7:45 pm

Recorded by Wade Ray circa 1952, and by Sue Thompson and Tommy Duncan within a year or two later.

I think it's a Cindy Walker composition--she recorded her own version in the 1960s

c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 16 Sep 2005 3:39 am

First of all thanks again to all of you and especially Rob Parker who tabbed out his arrgmt. You fellows really shake up an old timers memory. In my archives, I have Bill Staffords recording, a 78 by Wade Ray, the flip side is Things that Might Have been; Jim Reeves 45. When I was in Frisco in early 1950 I subbed in the Dude Martin band and Sue Thompson would sing this song. I guess I could not remember it for looking at Sue. She was a cute little thing. Now, if I could only remember how I usually sign off. Is it cj, ok,?????????

Mike Gross · Post by **Mike Gross** » 16 Sep 2005 5:21 am

Hi Mitch,

You are right on the money it was written by that lovely lady from Mexia, Texas. Gene Autry also had a very nice version that also charted mildly about the same time.

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Howard Tate · Post by **Howard Tate** » 16 Sep 2005 9:31 am

There's a fine instrumental version on the Two Southern Gentlemen cd by Bill Stafford and Herby Wallace.

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