Ronnie Milsap - Since I Don't Have You

I just featured Ronnie Milsap on my last Music Interlude this Sunday Afternoon and I finally realized that He is a blind piano player like Ray Charles... Here is another song by Ronnie Milsap titled "Since I Don't Have You"... I've also included herein, a short biography of Ronnie that I think you might be interested in...

Background on Ronnie Milsap:
"Milsap was born January 16, 1943, in Robbinsville, North Carolina, United States. A congenital disorder left him almost completely blind from birth. Abandoned by his mother as an infant, he was raised in poverty by his grandparents in the Smoky Mountains until he was sent to the Governor Morehead School For the Blind in Raleigh, North Carolina at age five.

During his childhood, Milsap developed a passion for music, particularly the late-night radio broadcasts of country music, gospel music, and rhythm and blues. When he was seven, his instructors noticed his musical talents. Soon afterward he began studying classical music formally at Governor Morehead and learned several instruments, eventually mastering the piano. When he was 14, a slap from one of the school's houseparents caused him to lose what very limited vision he had in his left eye.

With the national breakthrough of Elvis Presley in 1956, Milsap became interested in rock and roll music and formed a rock band called the Apparitions with fellow high-school students. In concert, Milsap has often paid tribute to the musicians of the 1950s who inspired him including Ray Charles, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley.

Milsap was awarded a full college scholarship and briefly attended Young Harris College in Young Harris, Georgia, with plans to become a lawyer. During this time, Milsap joined a popular local R&B band called the Dimensions that played gigs in the Atlanta area, and became a regular attraction at the rough and rowdy Royal Peacock Club. In the fall of 1964, Milsap declined a scholarship to law school and left college to pursue a full-time career in music. He met Joyce Reeves one night at a dinner party during this period, and the two were married in 1965." Read more on Wikipedia...

LYRICS:

"Since I Don't Have You" By Ronnie Milsap

When you walked out on me,
In walked the misery.
and he's been here since then.

I don't have plans and schemes.
I don't have hopes and dreams.
I, I, I don't have anything,
Since I don't have you.
(since I don't have you)

I don't have fond desires.
And I don't have happy hours.
No, I don't have anything,
Since I don't have you.

I don't have Happiness and I guess
I never will ever again.
When you walked out on me,
In walked the misery,
And he's been here since then.

I don't have love to share.
I don't have one who cares.
No, I don't have anything,
Since I don't have you!

When you walked out on me,
In walked old misery.
and he's been here since then.

I don't have love to share.
and I don't have one who cares.
I don't have anything,
Since I don't have you-oooo!

you-oooo!
you-oooo!
you-oooo!