Can I Sleep in Your Arms - Willie Nelson - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Written by Hank Cochran and first recorded and released in 1973 by his former wife Jeannie Seely, “Can I Sleep in Your Arms” became a Top 10 hit for the latter while also making in-roads on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada, where it went to Number 4. In 1975, Willie Nelson picked up the mantle to ask: "Can I sleep in your arms tonight, lady?," for his 18th studio album, Red Header Stranger, which was inspired by the "Tale of the Red Headed Stranger," a song he used to play as a disc jockey on his radio program in Fort Worth, Texas. The album tells the story of a fugitive on the run from the law after killing his wife and her lover. "It's so cold lying here all alone / And I have no hold to hold on you and / I assure you I'll do you no wrong," Willie Nelson sings on a pining country weeper that became an undisputed highlight of the album.