[Intro]
(I'm so lonesome I could cry)

[Verse 1]
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whinin' low
I'm so lonesome I could cry

[Verse 2]
I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawlin' by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry

[Instrumental Break]

[Refrain]
(The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry)

[Verse 3]
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves began to die?
That means me he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry
[Verse 4]
The silence of a fallin' star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry