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“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” by Hank Williams

    Here’s a chord/lyric version of the classic ballad.

    I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”  printable text version.

    E B7 E
    
    E
    Hear the lonesome whippoorwill
                             E7
    He sounds too blue to fly
        A                 E
    The midnight train is whining low
                    B7      E
    I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
    
      E
    I never seen a night so long
                               E7
    When times goes crawling by
        A                E
    The moon just went behind a cloud
                 B7       E   E7
    To hide it's face and cry
    
    E E7 A E B7 E  E7
    
            E
    Did you ever see a robin weep
                             E7
    When leaves began to die?
         A                E
    Like me he's lost the will to live
                    B7      E   E7
    I'm so lonesome I could cry
    
    E E7 A E B7 E  E7
    
        E
    The silence of a falling star
                          E7
    Lights up a purple sky
        A           E
    And as I wonder where you are
                    B7      E   
    I'm so lonesome I could cry