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You Better Keep It on Your Mind

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B-side
  
"Low Down Blues"

Genre
  
Country, blues

Label
  
MGM Records

Released
  
1954

Length
  
2:23

Recorded
  
1952, Nashville (Unconfirmed)

"You Better Keep It on Your Mind" is a song by Hank Williams. It was composed by Williams and Vic McAlpin and released as a posthumous single by Williams in 1954 on MGM Records. The B-side was "Low Down Blues." McAplin was a staff songwriter at Acuff-Rose and had made minor contributions to Hank's "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" while the pair went on a fishing trip. Thematically, "You Better Keep It on Your Mind" is similar to "You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)," with the narrator warning his significant other to take him seriously. The second voice on the recording is speculated to be Hank Snow.

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You Better Keep It on Your Mind Wikipedia