Biography:
Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 – November 17, 2003) was an American country musician.
Gibson was born in Shelby, North Carolina into a poor working-class family, he dropped out of school in the second grade.
Gibson's first band was called Sons of the Soil, with whom he made his first recording in 1948. Among his greatest hits were "Oh Lonesome Me" (later recorded by both Ray Charles and Neil Young) and "Blue Blue Day" (both No. 1 hits in 1958); "Don't Tell Me Your Troubles" (1959); "Sea of Heartbreak" (1961); "Lonesome No.
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Other songs:
- A Born Loser
- A Legend In My Time
- After The Heartache
- All My Love
- Anything New Gets Old
- Ashes Of Love
- Automatic Mama
- Bad Bad Day
- Big Hearted Me
- Blue Blue Day
- Blue Darlin
- Dont Break Me Easy
- Dont Tell Me Your Troubles
- Everlovin Never Changin Mind
- Give Myself A Party
- Headin Down The Wrong Highway
- Heartbreak Avenue
- I Aint A
- I Cant Leave
- I Cant Stop Loving You
- I Need Thee Every Hour
- I Sat Back And Let It Happen
- Id Be A Legend In My Time
- If You Dont Know It
- Just One Time
- Lonesome Number One
- Look Whos Blue
- Love That Cant Be
- No One Will Ever Know
- Oh Lonesome Me
- Oh Such A Stranger
- Pretty Rainbow
- Right Away
- Sea Of Heartbreak
- So How Come No One Loves Me
- Sweet Dreams
- Sweet Sweet Girl
- There Is Power In The Blood
- There She Goes I Wish Her Well
- Too Much Hurt
- Too Soon To Know
- Who Cares
- With Your Love On My Mind
- Woman
- Woman Sensuous Woman
- You Cant Pick A Rose In December
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Give Myself A Party:Don Gibson.
#5 US Country and #46 on BB Hot 100
on RCA Records in 1958.
INTRO: G C D G
#1.
Em G C D
I've got a lot of memories to last me
G
the rest of my life.
G C D
So, if you don't want to love me, baby,
G
that'll be all right.
G C D
I'm gonna take all the lovin' that I
G
have for you.
G C D
Gonna take all the loneliness, sit right
G
down with the blues.
CHORUS:
G C
I'm gonna give myself a party, and serve
G
old memories.
G Em A
Give myself a party, think of how it used
D
to be.
C G
Remember all the happiness that we once knew.
G Em D
I'm gonna give myself a party, just me and
G C G
the blues..(just me and the blues.)
INTERLUDE: G C D G
#2.
Em G C D G
A few of your love letters, a photograph or two.
G C D C
A gift you gave on my birthday with words of, I
G
love you.
G C
There's a lots of things to think about, when
D G
you're happy, feeling blue.
G C D
So, I'm gonna take all the loneliness, sit right
G
down with the blues.
CHORUS:
G C
I'm gonna give myself a party, and serve
G
old memories.
G Em A
Give myself a party, think of how it used
D
to be.
C G
Remember all the happiness that we once knew.
G Em D
I'm gonna give myself a party, just me and
G C G
the blues..(just me and the blues.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
#5 US Country and #46 on BB Hot 100
on RCA Records in 1958.
INTRO: G C D G
#1.
Em G C D
I've got a lot of memories to last me
G
the rest of my life.
G C D
So, if you don't want to love me, baby,
G
that'll be all right.
G C D
I'm gonna take all the lovin' that I
G
have for you.
G C D
Gonna take all the loneliness, sit right
G
down with the blues.
CHORUS:
G C
I'm gonna give myself a party, and serve
G
old memories.
G Em A
Give myself a party, think of how it used
D
to be.
C G
Remember all the happiness that we once knew.
G Em D
I'm gonna give myself a party, just me and
G C G
the blues..(just me and the blues.)
INTERLUDE: G C D G
#2.
Em G C D G
A few of your love letters, a photograph or two.
G C D C
A gift you gave on my birthday with words of, I
G
love you.
G C
There's a lots of things to think about, when
D G
you're happy, feeling blue.
G C D
So, I'm gonna take all the loneliness, sit right
G
down with the blues.
CHORUS:
G C
I'm gonna give myself a party, and serve
G
old memories.
G Em A
Give myself a party, think of how it used
D
to be.
C G
Remember all the happiness that we once knew.
G Em D
I'm gonna give myself a party, just me and
G C G
the blues..(just me and the blues.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
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