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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAnd how about some love for Hank Williams?
One of the most iconic, beautiful songs ever.
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.
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And how about some love for Hank Williams? (Original Post)
alphafemale
Sep 2014
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LWolf
(46,179 posts)1. Okay.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)2. And Hank III
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)5. More Hank III
kwassa
(23,340 posts)3. Hey, good lookin'. What you got cookin'?
How about cookin' something up with me?
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)4. Hank Sr.
I think David Allan Coe wrote a really good tribute to Hank ...
The Ride
Well, I was thumbin' from Montgomery
I had my guitar on my back
When a stranger stopped beside me in an antique Cadillac
Well he was dressed like 1950
Half drunk and hollow-eyed
He said "Its a long walk to Nashville
Would you like a ride, son?"
And well I sat down in the front seat, he turned on the radio
Them sad old songs comin' out of them speakers was solid country gold
And I noticed the stranger was ghost-white pale
When he asked me for a light
And I knew there was something strange about this ride
(Chorus)
He said "Drifter can ya make folks cry when you play and sing?
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings?"
He said "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya, its a long, hard ride"
Then he cried just south of Nashville
And he turned that car around
He said "This is where you get off boy,
Cause I'm goin' back to Alabam'"
As I stepped out of that Cadillac
I said "Mister, many thanks"
He said "You don't have to call me Mister, Mister.,
The whole world called me Hank
He said "Drifter can ya make folks cry when you play and sing?
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings?"
He said "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya, its a long, hard ride"
He said "Drifter can ya make folks cry when you play and sing?
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings?"
He said "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya, its a long, hard ride"
If you're big star bound
Let me warn ya its a long, hard ride
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)6. Hank III. Broke Love Sick and Drinkin'
It's hard and it is rough but it is doin' the best that I can.
mopinko
(70,021 posts)7. no matter how i struggle or strive
i'll never get out of this world alive.
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)8. Sr. yes.
Jr. some are okay. III, no comment.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)9. Hank III's base player.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)10. Molly Gene. One woman band
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)11. The Hooten Hallers.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)12. And the best Hellbilly. The Legendary Shack Shackers.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)13. Hank III "Alone and DYing.
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