Heartaches By The Number

Guy Mitchell

Written by Harlan Howard



Peaked at # 1 in 1959

Remake by Johnny Tillotson hit # 35 in 1965



INTRO:



CHORUS

Heartaches by the number, troubles by the score

Everyday you love me less, each day I love you more

Yes, I've got heartaches by the number, a love that I can't win

But the day that I stop countin', that's the day my world will end



Heartache number one was when you left me

I never knew that I could hurt this way

And heartache number two was when you *come* back again

You came back but never meant to stay



Yes, I've got

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Heartache number three was when you called me

And said that you were comin' back to stay

With hopeful heart I waited for your knock on the door

I waited but you must have lost your way



Yes, I've got

CHORUS



TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: *come*: logic and English grammar dictate that this should be "came",

as in the next line, but Mitchell clearly DOES sing "come."