19 - Jimmy Wakely - One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)

Riprake
Published on Oct 29, 2022
Jimmy Wakely's second song on this album—also having to do with infidelity, albeit at more of a distance—has one wondering whether the kind of songs he liked to perform ever made his wife a bit doubtful and uneasy about his fidelity to her. (Of course—contrary to what the song says there at the end—if in the alternate reality he envisions, the narrator had arranged for the one who currently has his heart to have his name, chances are she wouldn't have his heart because the one who has his name in this reality would then have his heart instead; the grass is always greener on the other side, you know...)