{"id":88,"date":"2021-05-10T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=88"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:00:17","slug":"always-on-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/always-on-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Always on my Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">by Willie Nelson &#8211; Key of A\u00a0\u00a0 <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea48a7309b57098991252' value='69ea48a7309b57098991252'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea48a7309b57098991252' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea48a7309b57098991252' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea48a7309b57098991252' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea48a7309b57098991252' ><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">This was written by the songwriting trio of Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson Thompson. Wayne Carson wrote this song in ten minutes at his kitchen table in Missouri. He completed it in the studio with the help of Johnny Christopher and Mark James. It was originally recorded by Brenda Lee in 1971.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900; font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">[C] Maybe I didn&#8217;t [G] love you, [Am] quite as [C] often as I [F] could have.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">[C] And maybe I didn&#8217;t [G] treat you, [Am] quite as [C] good as I [D] should have.<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-f.jpg\" width=\"107\" height=\"171\" align=\"left\" \/>[F] If I made you feel [C] second best; [F] girl I&#8217;m [C] sorry I was [Dm] blind.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> [G] But you were always on my [C7] mind.\u00a0 [F] You were [G] always on my [C] mind. [ F G ]<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900; font-size: 16pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">And [C] maybe I didn&#8217;t [G] hold you, [Am] all those [C] lonely, lonely [F] times.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">[C] I guess I never [G] told you, [Am] I am so happy that you&#8217;re [D] mine.<\/span><br \/>\n[F] Little things I should have [C] said and done.<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u00a0\u00a0 [F] I just [C] never took the [Dm] time.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>[G] You were always on my [C7] mind.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">[F] You were [G] always on my [C] mind. [G]<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900; font-size: 16pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[ C G ] Tell [ Am C ] me &#8211; &#8211; [F] Tell me that your [C] sweet love hasn&#8217;t [Dm] died <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">[G]\u00a0\u00a0 And [ C G ] give [ Am C ] me &#8211; &#8211; Give me [F] one more chance to [C] keep you [Dm] satisfied.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 I&#8217;ll [G] keep you [C] satisfied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900; font-size: 16pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[F] Little things I should have [C] said and done.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> [F] I just [C] never took the [Dm] time.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 [G] You were always on my [C7] mind.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">[F] You were [G] always on my [C] mind.<\/span> [G]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900; font-size: 16pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[G] You were always on my [C7] mind.\u00a0 [F] You were [G] always on my [C] mind. [G]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Willie Nelson &#8211; Key of A\u00a0\u00a0 [C] Maybe I didn&#8217;t [G] love you, [Am] quite as [C] often as I [F] could have.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [C] And maybe I didn&#8217;t [G] treat you, [Am] quite as [C] good as I [D] should have. [F] If I made you feel [C] second &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/always-on-my-mind\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Always on my Mind<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,13,56,116,117,115,68,131,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-power-outage","category-willie-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27522,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/27522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}