I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams / B. J. Thomas (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams, 1949; B. J. Thomas, 1966). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-04-18. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" was written and recorded by Hank Williams in 1949 (songfacts.com, 2022). What is so interesting is that his version of the song never made it to any of the music charts. It was released as the "B" side of "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It," which did chart and rose to #2 on the Billboard Top Country Singles chart in Nov. of 1949 (Whitburn, 2013). However, the song has become a staple of country music artists. Covers abound, and those that charted with their versions include: Linda Plowman, Charlie McCoy, Terry Bradshaw, Jerry Lee Lewis all hit the country chart, albeit the cover that rose the highest on any of the charts was the debut of B. J. Thomas and the Triumphs, whose version reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1966 (Whitburn, 2013); interesting that it did not land on Billboard's country chart (Whitburn, 1994).

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Lyrics:

Did you hear the lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train
Is whining low
And I'm so lonesome I could cry

Did you ever see
A night so long
When time goes crawlin' by?
The moon just went
Behind a cloud
And I'm so lonesome I could cry

Did you ever see
A robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
That means he's lost
The will to live
And I'm so lonesome I could cry

The silence of
A fallin' star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry

Yeah, I could cry
I could cry
I could cry
I could cry, oh
I could cry, I could cry