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Love, lust, and heartbreak

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Not necessarily in that order. 

In his unfinished memoir, Leon Fullerton wrote: "The night I heard Roy Orbison at the Grand Old Opry I threw in the towel on love songs."

A slight exaggeration. He did pen a few, in moments of weakness. He rarely performed or recorded them, but a few got the better of him and made it onto a single or album.  Here, for better and for worse, is a representative sampling, as interpreted by his nephews Raphael Gunn and Delmont Fullerton, better known as the Del-Rays.

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The songs:


> See "Lariat of Love" lyrics and notes at Cowgirl's Lullaby.

> See "She's Driving Him" lyrics and notes at Cowgirl's Lullaby.

​> See "Walt's With Me" lyrics and notes at Cowgirl's Lullaby.

​> See "Nashville" lyrics and notes at Tunnel Vision.

> See "Bad B Movie" lyrics and notes at Tales of the Enchanted Mesa.

> See "Gene Autry Pajamas" lyrics and notes at Cowgirl's Lullaby.

> See "Stop Me" lyrics and notes at Mercury.

> See "This Ain't the Life" lyrics and notes at Mercury.

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“Love goes by haps; 
Some Cupid kills with arrows, 
some with traps”

William Shakespeare
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