Over soft acoustic guitar chords, Williams sings, “Hear that lonesome whippoorwill/ He sounds too blue to fly/ The midnight train is whining low/ I’m so lonesome, I could cry.” ...

A trademark Hank Williams song was created on August 30, 1949, when Hank recorded ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’ in Cincinnati, Ohio. Surely one of the most lovelorn lyrics in all of country ...