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True Love Travels On A Gravel Road

(Dallas Frazier / Al Owens)


Copyright Blue Crest & Elvis Presley Music Inc.

Original by Duane Dee in 1968


RCA studio session - February 17-22, 1969 - American Studios - Memphis

 February 17, 8-11 pm

XPA5 1265-na True Love Travels On A Gravel Road


RCA studio session - February 17-22, 1969 - American Studios - Memphis

 February 22, 9 pm-12 am

XPA5 1265-na - Harmony vocal overdub


Overdub session for RCA - March 25, 1969 - RCA Studio A - Nashville

 XPA5 1265-na - Overdub
May 1969 LP RCA LSP 4155 From Elvis In Memphis
Re-mixed version:
June 30, 1987 CD RCA 6221-2-R The Memphis Record
Outtakes:
Takes 2, 4, 6, 7 and 11 unfinished master: April 2013 CD FTD 506020 975047 From Elvis In Memphis
Take 2: June 25, 2002 CD RCA BMG 07863-65115-2 Elvis Today, Tomorrow & Forever
Alternate take: April 12, 1999 CD RCA 07863 67677-2 Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology
Takes 6 (fs) and 7: October 10, 2001 2001 CD FTD 74321 84216-2 Memphis Sessions






How many girls choose cotton dress worlds
When they could have satins and lace
And stand by her man, never once letting shade touch her face
How many hearts could live through all the winters
We've known and still not be cold
True love travels on a gravel road.


* Love is a stranger and hearts are in danger
All through streets paved with gold
For true love travels on a gravel road.


Down through the years we've had hard times and tears
But they only helped our love grow
And we'll stay together no matter how strong the wind blows
Not once have I seen your blue eyes filled with envy
Or stray from the one that you hold
Oh true love travels on a gravel road.


* Repeat


Yeh, true love travels on a gravel road. Mmmm
True love travels on a gravel road. (Oh yeh)
True love travels on a gravel road. 



c/g                   em
How many girls choose cotton dress worlds
      f                         c/g
When they could have satins and lace
		       f				  g
And stand by her man, never once letting shade touch her face
c/g
How many hearts could live through all the winters
		f             c/f
We've known and still not be cold
c/g        f                  c/g
True love travels on a gravel road.
c/g            
Love is a stranger and hearts are in danger
    f                         c/g
On smooth streets paved with gold
For true love travels on a gravel road.
Down through the years we've had hard times and tears
But they only helped our love grow
And we'll stay together no matter how strong the wind blows
Not once have I seen your blue eyes filled with envy
Or stray from the one that you hold
Oh true love travels on a gravel road.
Love is a stranger and hearts are in danger
All through streets paved with gold
For true love travels on a gravel road.
Yeah, true love travels on a gravel road. Mmmm
True love travels on a gravel road.
True love travels on a gravel road.