I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Bill Monroe · Anthology [2003]

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



Did you ever hear a robin weep

When leaves begin to die?

That means he's lost the will to live

I'm so lonesome, I could cry



The silence of a falling star

Lights up a purple sky

And as I wonder where you are

I'm so lonesome, I could cry