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Thread #40109   Message #3804238
Posted By: Jim Dixon
08-Aug-16 - 06:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: My Voice Keeps Changing On Me
Subject: Lyr Add: MY VOICE IS CHANGING (Jack Clement)
My transcription from YouTube (see link below). Lyrics in parentheses are sung in falsetto. Lyrics in brackets are sung in a bass voice. The rest are sung in a normal tenor or baritone(?) voice.


MY VOICE IS CHANGING*
Written by Jack Clement (who was sometimes called "Cowboy Jack Clement")
As recorded by Jack Clement, 1962.

Now I've got a problem; it's about to get me down.
Ev'ry time I try to sing, I feel like a clown.
They say I used to sing like a bird—unquote—
But lately something strange is happ'ning to my throat.

'Cause my voice keeps (changing, you see).
[Yes, my voice is] (changing on me).
Oh, I feel like a fool and my life is a wreck,
'Cause my (voice keeps) [chang]ing on me.
Poor me! Poor me!

They had a show at school yesterday,
And I got up to sing and play.
There was a girl that I thought I could snow
When she heard me sing on the amateur show.

But my [voice kept] (changing on) me,
Slippin' and [slidin'] (on) me.
Now I can't show my face and my life's a disgrace,
'Cause my [voice] keeps (chang)ing [on me].
Poor (me)! [Poor me]!


* Title as given on this YouTube video where the image of the record label is shown. The same title is also given in Billboard and the Catalog of Copyright Entries. However, YouTube has several other recordings, by various artists, that are called "My Voice Keeps Changing on Me" or "My Voice Is Changing on Me."