i'm so lonesome i could cry

I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry -- Hank Williams
Arr. Dave Norton & Ed Lyons

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry


G_________Bm_______Em______G
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
___G__________Bm______F____G7
He sounds too blue to fly
____C________Cm_______G_______Em
The midnight train is whining low
_______G________D7______G
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 a cloud
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die
That means 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


i apologize for my inability to format the font so that the chord notations appear directly above the proper syllables without cheating a little bit--i hope you can figure it out via the underscores. i have a copy of the original recording dave and eddie made of the arrangement, which i'll try to figure out how to put online so i can link it here. it's all one take, with dave on acoustic guitar and vocals, with ed on acoustic with nashville tuning (thanks, dave, for explaining how it was accomplished in the studio). google can be your friend if you want to find out more about the tuning, but listening to ed and dave play it is the best way to feel it. stay tuned.

i'll also mention, as seems to be the case with so many miraculous angles of this universe in which we live, that the changes eddie and dave arranged positively sing from the strings of a ukulele as if they were written exactly for it. there's no mistaking the brilliance of the piece for rhyming guitars, and there's no way i'll ever be able to do it justice all by my lonesome, to coin a phrase, but this is a gift that i'll always treasure, as if it was handed to me special, because, in the way that music is, it was.

thank you, eddie, for everything.