{"id":495,"date":"2021-05-10T03:56:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=495"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:32:50","slug":"im-so-lonesome-i-could-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/im-so-lonesome-i-could-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m So Lonesome I Could Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea79e90652e0081104080' value='69ea79e90652e0081104080'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea79e90652e0081104080' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea79e90652e0081104080' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea79e90652e0081104080' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea79e90652e0081104080' >\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Rolling Stone magazine posts this as the saddest song ever written.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cCtVdI2EP8M\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/robertandrews.net\/images\/youtube.png\" width=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Hear that lonesome whippoorwill.\u00a0 He sounds too blue to [C7] fly.<br \/>\nThe [F] midnight train is [C] whining low.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so [G7] lonesome I could [C] cry.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve [C] never seen a night so long.\u00a0 When time goes crawling [C7] by.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The [F] moon just went [C] behind a cloud.\u00a0 To [G7] hide its face and [C] cry.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Did you [C] ever see a robin weep.\u00a0 When leaves began to [C7] die?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>That [F] means he&#8217;s lost the [C] will to live\u00a0 I&#8217;m so [G7] lonesome I could [C] cry.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The [C] silence of a falling star.\u00a0 Lights up a purple [C7] sky.<br \/>\nA<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>nd [F] as I wonder [C] where you are.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so [G7] lonesome I could [C] cry.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [C] Hear that lonesome whippoorwill.\u00a0 He sounds too blue to [C7] fly. The [F] midnight train is [C] whining low.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so [G7] lonesome I could [C] cry. I&#8217;ve [C] never seen a night so long.\u00a0 When time goes crawling [C7] by. The [F] moon just went [C] behind &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/im-so-lonesome-i-could-cry\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m So Lonesome I Could Cry<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,120,133,126,265,56,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30165,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/30165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}