The Oak Ridge Boys – I’ll Be True To You

“I’ll Be True to You” is a song written by Alan Rhody, and recorded by American country music group The Oak Ridge Boys. It was released in April 1978 as the third single from the album Y’all Come Back Saloon. The song was The Oak Ridge Boys’ third single to hit the country chart and the first of seventeen number one country hits. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country chart.

From the album Y’all Come Back Saloon
B-side “An Old Time Family Bluegrass Band”
Released April 15, 1978
Genre Country
Length 3:40
Label Dot
Songwriter(s) Alan Rhody
Producer(s) Ron Chancey

The Oak Ridge Boys – I’ll Be True To You Lyrics

They met upon a blue moon
And they parted on a cloudy day
They were so in love and out of school
But he was goin’ so far, far away

She said: “I’ll be true to you
Even though you don’t want me to
And I’ll be blue for you
Even though you’ve asked me not to”

Well the year’s drifted by them, as we all know they can
He found other women, but she refused other men
But as fate would have it, they met again
She was on a down-hill slide, and he was just slidin’ in

As he looked into her eyes that night, he never realized
The only real love in his life was passin’ by
When he turned and left her there, his words, “Goodbye”
He heard her calling out to him, and as he walked, she cried

“I’ve been true to you
Seems like speakin’ to me is the least that you could do
And I’ve been blue for you
Even though you’ve asked me not to”

She’d been drinkin way too hard one night
She’d been drinkin way too long
Alone and pale in a cheap hotel, she died there in the dawn
Kneelin’ by her grave, oh so late and oh so wrong
He longed to hold her close again, cryin’ on and on

He cried, “I’ll be true to you
After all that I have put you through
And I’ll be blue for you
Though you never even asked me to”