"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" lyrics
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves began to die?
Like me, he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves began to die?
Like me, he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry
Writer(s): Hank Williams Sr.
Hank Williams wrote "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" having been inspired by his relationship with his wife Audrey Mae Shepperd.
Elvis Presley covered this song during his "Aloha from Hawaii" TV special on the 14th of January 1973. He said before singing, "I'd like to sing a song that's... probably the saddest song I've ever heard."
box set: "The Complete Hank Williams" (1998)
