The Very Best Of Hank Williams lyrics

(Hank Williams)

Your cheatin' heart
Will make you weep
You'll cry and cry
And try to sleep.

But sleep won't come
The whole night through
Your cheatin' heart
Will tell on you.

When tears come down
Like fallin' rain
You'll toss around
And call my name.

You'll walk the floor
The way I do
Your cheatin' heart
Will tell on you.

--- Instrumental ---

Your cheatin' heart

Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me oh, my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh, my oh
Son of a gun we’ll have good fun on the bayou.

Chorus:
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and a fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I’m gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun we’ll have big fun on the bayou.

(Irving Mills - Cliff Friend)

I got a feelin' called the blues
Oh Lord, since my baby's said goodbye
Oh, I don't know what I'll do
All I do is sit and sigh, oh Lord.

That last long day she said goodbye
Well Lord, I thought I would cry
She'll do me, she'll do you
She's got that kinda lovin'.

Lord, I love to hear her
When she calls me sweet daddy

(Hank Williams)

I tried so hard my dear to show that you’re my every dream.
Yet you’re afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme
A mem'ry from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart
Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart.

Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn’t do

(Hank Williams)

Say hey, good lookin', whatcha got cookin'
How's about cookin' somethin' up with me?
Hey, sweet baby, don't you think maybe
We could find us a brand new recipe?

I got a hot-rod Ford and a two-dollar bill
And I know a spot right over the hill
There's soda pop and the dancin's free
So if you wanna have fun come along with me.

(Claude Boone)

I have the invitation that you sent me
You wanted me to see you change your name
I couldn't stand to see you wed another
I hope that you'll be happy just the same.

Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
That should be ringing now for you and me
And down the aisle with someone else you're walking
Those wedding bells will never ring for me.

(Hank Williams - Fred Rose)

Kaw-liga was a wooden Indian standing by the door
He fell in love with an Indian maiden over in the antique store
Kaw-liga just stood there and never let it show
So she could never answer "yes" or "no."

He always wore his Sunday feathers and held a tomahawk
The maiden wore her beads and braids and hoped some day he'd talk

(Hank Williams)

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.

--- Instrumental ---

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die
That mean's he's lost the will to live