... "Jesus was a friend of publicans and sinners"... "Jesus was a friend of publicans and sinners".
Oh maaaaaaaaaaan, I am like a total Hank fanatic! Best thread ever! I listen to him every day! “No matter how I struggle and strive....I’ll never get out of this world alive!”
The guy was an absolute musical genius and of course the Lord had to take him away. Like my brother says, the Lord always does because he can’t allow that much heaven on earth at one time.
Jambalaya is my favorite song just cause l love to sing it, I knew all the words like the back of my hand since I was a kid and I grew up in Queens New York city lol
Goodbye Joe me gotta go, me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the piro down de bayou
My Yvonne, the sweetest one me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we’ll have good fun on de bayou
Jambalaya a crawfish pie and a filet gumbo
Cause tonight Im gonna see my machez amio
Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be a gay o
Son of a gun we’ll have big fun on de bayou.
MGM Records released “Getting Closer” in the spring of 1957—more than four years after Hank Williams’ death.
He was singing “I saw the light” from the front seat of his Cadillac. He turned to Minnie Pearl in the back seat and said “That’s just it, Minnie. There ain’t no light. There ain’t no light.” Within a few days he was dead. The greatest songwriter of all times.
“There’s a tear in my beer cause I’m crying for you dear.
You are always on my mind.
Into these last few beers I have cried a million tears.
You are always on my mind.
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 see a robin weep
When leaves began to die?
Like me 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
No argument here, hank really believed in Jesus.
There are so many that i can think of as my favorites but the one that has stayed with me since i was about 12 years old and has shaped much of what i believe the message that Jesus tells us is
Be careful of the stones that you throw.
I don,t know who wrote the song but i think there is no doubt Hank fervently believed it.
I walked into a truck stop in Texas in 1988 and the jukebox was playing Hank,s your cheating heart, sitting there for about an hour it played steady, and at least 50 percent was Hank Williams.
It was just like going back 35 years, back home.