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I feel tears wellin' up cold and deep inside
Like my heart's sprung a big leak
And a stab of loneliness sharp and painful
That I may never shake
You might say that I was taking it hard
Since you wrote me off with a call
But don't you wager that I'll hide in sorrow
When I may lay right down and bawl
Now the race is on
And here comes pride in the backstretch
Heartaches goin' to the inside
My tears are holdin' back, they're tryin' not to fall
My heart's out of the runnin'
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all
One day I'd ventured in love
Never once suspectin' what the final result would be
And how I lived in fear of waking up each morning
Thinking that you'd gone from me
There's ache and pain in my heart
For today was the one that I hated to face
Somebody new came up to win her
I came out in second place
Well the race is on
And here comes pride in the backstretch
Heartaches goin' to the inside
My tears are holdin' back, they're tryin' not to fall
My heart's out of the runnin'
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all
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Recordings by other artists
| Jimmie Gray
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1963
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The Race Is On single
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| George Jones
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1964
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The Race Is On single
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| Jack Jones
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1965
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My Kind Of Town
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| Kitty Wells
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1965
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Lonesome, Sad & Blue
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| Sawyer Brown
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1989
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The Boys Are Back
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| Merle Haggard
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2006
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Jones Sings Haggard, Haggard Sings Jones: Kickin' Out The Footlights Again
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