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The Fool

(Naomi Ford)


Copyright Malapi Music & Desert Palms Publishing

Original by Sanford Clark in 1956


Home recordings - November 1959 - Goethestrasse, Bad Nauheim - Germany

 OPA5 8206
August 1984 LP RCA CPM6 5172-2 A Golden Celebration
Outtakes:
Take 1 - Dated November 14, 1959: June 25, 2002 CD RCA BMG 07863-65115-2 Elvis Today, Tomorrow & Forever


RCA studio session - June 4-8, 1970 - RCA's Studio B - Nashville

 June 4, 6-9 pm, 10 pm-1 am, 1:30-4:30 am

ZPA4 1597-02


Overdub sessions for RCA - October 1, 1970 - RCA's Studio A - Nashville

 ZPA4 1597-02
January 1971 LP RCA LSP 4460 Elvis Country
Re-mixed version:
October 10, 1995 CD RCA BMG 66670-2 Walk A Mile In My Shoes The Essential 70's Masters
Outtakes:
Take 1: July 30, 1996 CD RCA 66866-2 A Hundred Years From Now Essential Elvis Vol 4


Re-recording sessions - Second session - Young 'un Sound Studio - Murfreesboro

 October 15, 1980
KWA5 8560 - Unreleased





Gather round me buddy, raise your glasses high
And drink to a fool, a crazy fool
Who told his baby goodbye


Too late he found he loves her so much he wants to die
So drink to a fool, a crazy fool
Who told his baby goodbye


* He needs her, he needs her so
He wonders ... why he let her go
She's found, she's found, she's found
A new love buddy, he's a lucky guy, oh
So drink to a fool, a crazy fool
Who told his baby goodbye


* Repeat
Who told his baby goodbye, goodbye, goodbye 



c               am       dm               g7                     
Gather round me buddy, raise your glasses high
      em                 a
And drink to a fool, a crazy fool
      f      g7    c
Who told his baby goodbye
Too late he found he loved her so much he wants to die
So drink to a fool, a crazy fool
Who told his baby goodbye
    g7                      c
He needs her, he needs her so
     g7    em              a
He wonders why he let her go
She's found, she's found, she's found
A new love buddy, he's a lucky guy
So drink to a fool, a crazy fool
Who told his baby goodbye