I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

by Hank Williams · posted by chibluesteve

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

 -3   -2   -3  -2   -3  -2  1
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill, 
-2   -3   -2   -3  -2  1
He sounds too blue to fly. 
-3  <-3 <-3   <-3 <-3  5  -2   1   
The midnight train is whining low, 
-3 <-3   5  -3  3 -3 3  -2 
I'm so lonesome I could cry. 

 -2  -3 -2  -3 -2  -3   -2  1 
I've never seen a night so long
 -2   -3   -2   -3  -2  1
When time goes crawling by. 
-3  <-3  <-3  <-3  <-3 5  -3  1
The moon just went behind a cloud
-3 <-3  5   -3   3   -3 3 -2
To---- hide its face and- cry. 

-2  -2  -3 -2 -3 -2 -3 -2  1
Did you ever- see a robin weep, 
 -2    -3   -2 -3 -2  1
When leaves began to die? 
 -3   <-3  <-3  <-3  <-3  5   -2  1
That means he's lost the will to live, 
-3 <-3   5  -3  3 -3 3  -2
I'm so lonesome I could cry. 

-2  -3  -2  -3 -2  -3 -2   1
The silence of a- falling star
  -2   -3 -2  -3 -2  1
Lights up a- purple sky. 
-3 <-3 <-3 <-3 <-3   5   -3   1
And as I-- wonder- where you are
-3 <-3  5  -3   3 -3 3  -2
I'm so lonesome I could cry.

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