Walkin' After Midnight - Patsy Cline (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Walkin' After Midnight (Patsy Cline, 1957). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-09-04. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Walkin' After Midnight," written by Alan Block and Don Hecht, was Patsy Cline's first entry onto the charts and turned into a crossover hit landing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at the no. 12 position in 1957 and no. 2 on the Hot Country and Western Sides' chart (songfacts, 2022; Whitburn, 1994, 2013). Cline rerecorded the song in 1961 with a more upbeat rhythm, dropping the steal guitar, adding background vocalists and adding a change in key for the last verse (allmusic, 2022; youtube, 2017). Initially, Cline did not like the song and refused to record it unless the company allowed her to record a second song of her choosing, which they agreed to (songfacts, 2022; W. Groff, wideopencountry, 2022). "Walkin' After Midnight" became a huge hit after she performed it on the popular show, "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts," and since then, Cline has been credited with opening the door for future female country/pop artists (W. Groff, wideopencountry, 2022). Tragically, "While en route to Nashville after playing a benefit concert in Kansas City, Patsy Cline died [along with her manager, country artists Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, and the pilot] when her plane nose-dived into the Tennessee wilderness on March 5, 1963;" she was 30 years old (K. Fraga, Aug. 3, 2022).

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Lyrics:

I go out walkin' after midnight
Out in the moonlight, just like we used to do
I'm always walkin' after midnight
Searchin' for you

I walk for miles along the highway
Well that's just my way of sayin' I love you
I'm always walkin' after midnight
Searchin' for you

I stop to see a weepin' willow
Cryin' on his pillow
Maybe he's cryin' for me
And as the skies turn gloomy
Night winds whisper to me
I'm lonesome as I can be

I go out walkin' after midnight
Out in the starlight, just hopin' you may be
Somewhere a-walkin' after midnight
Searchin' for me

I stop to see a weepin' willow
Cryin' on his pillow
Maybe he's cryin' for me
And as the skies turn gloomy
Night winds whisper to me
I'm lonesome as I can be

I go out walkin' after midnight
Out in the starlight, just hopin' you may be
Somewhere a-walkin' after midnight
Searchin' for me