Uploaded by msramola on Jul 10, 2009
"Moody River" is a number-one Billboard Hot 100 song from June of 1961 by Pat Boone. It was written by and originally performed by country rockabilly singer Chase Webster (real name Gary Daniel Bruce, not to be confused with Gary Bruce of The Knack). Webster was a labelmate of Boone's at Dot Records.
This was the title track from one of Boone's better selling albums. Boone sang this song as if he were in pain. It was covered some years later by Frank Sinatra and also by Johnny Rivers.
The song tells the story of a man who goes to meet his love at the river, by the old oak tree, and finds that she has committed suicide. A note on the riverbank explains that she has cheated on him and that "No longer can I live with this hurt and this sin. I just couldn't tell you that guy was just a friend." He then looks into the river and sees his own reflection on the river looking back, ever hauntingly, at him. He is the "lonely, lonely face just lookin' back at me". So with "Tears in his eyes, and a prayer on his lips, and the glove of his lost love, at his fingertips".
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What shit.
rockin1ify 3 weeks ago
Awesome
Grandma mary
Fr3derick 1 month ago
Back when Ed Sullivan or Dick Clark would've winced at the lyrics and here Lawrence Welk acts as if it's no big thing..
RockinEd 2 months ago
@pornguy2
I think you meant 80 million. He's good but not that good.LOL
artcaley 7 months ago
tv = ugly monster!
biribikan 7 months ago
He's amazing! <3
Nomi80888 1 year ago
Moody river more deadly
Than the vainest knife
Moody river your muddy water
Took my baby's life
MrMeatacdc 1 year ago
1.39 love how he shoves her off stage!!
connaught2008 1 year ago
A great classic that will live forever! Moody River..
paris9785 1 year ago
Pat has sold about 80 billion records, but this is
the only one worth buying.
pornguy2 2 years ago