Artist
Hank Williams
Hank Williams appears 2 times in our Country and Sung to Someone lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 2
- Appears on
- Country and Sung to Someone
- Year
- 1949
- Highest placing
- No. 1 in Country
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
1949 · MGM
Ranked No. 1 in Country
A whippoorwill, a falling star and a man who cannot say the thing directly. The most imitated lyric in American songwriting, and nobody has bettered it.
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I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
1949 · MGM
Picked by Sung to Someone
It reads as a nature poem — a whippoorwill, a falling star — right up to "did you ever see a robin weep". Every image in it is being handed to somebody. He is not describing loneliness; he is telling one person what it is doing to him.
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