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Topic: Hank Williams On My Mind

Phil recently wrote a song using a remark made by Mojo.  This is one I wrote by doing the same thing. I was playing at a Saturday morning jam with some friends. One of my buddies (also named Joe) kept playing old Hank Williams songs. When I asked him about it he said "I just woke up this morning with Hank Williams on my mind".  And I said "Joe, you just gave me an idea for a song".  Where I could, I used some of Hank's song titles in the lyrics.

https://soundcloud.com/user-198880521/h … on-my-mind

Hank Williams On My Mind  Ken Willis


Yeah, my [C]friends all tried to warn me right [F]from the very start


[C]That you were the cheatin' kind and you had a cold, cold [G]heart [G7]


[C]But I would not listen, [F]they say love is blind


And [C]I woke up this morning with Hank [G]Williams on my [C]mind [C7]




Yeah, I [F]listened to those songs Hank wrote, and [C]every word rang true


[D7]Just like when your cheatin' heart [G]finally told on [G7]you


[C]But I finally saw the light and left your [F]memory behind


[C]I woke up this morning with Hank [G]Williams on my [C]mind


[C]You ran off with some other man and [F]didn't even say goodbye



You [C]left me with the honkey-tonk blues and so lonesome I could[G]cry[G7]


[C]All I had to comfort me was [F]whiskey, beer and wine


[C]I woke up this morning with Hank [G]Williams on my [C]mind [C7]




Yeah, I [F]listened to those songs Hank wrote, and [C]every word rang true


[D7]Just like when your cheatin' heart [G]finally told on [G7]you


[C]But I finally saw the light and left your [F]memory behind


[C]I woke up this morning with Hank [G]Williams on my [C]mind


Yeah, [F] I woke up this [C]morning with Hank [G]Williams on my [F]mind [C]


 

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Re: Hank Williams On My Mind

Good one Ken.  Hank still lives on.  Nearly every time I have been to an open mike night here in New Zealand. someone will get up and sing one of his songs and it  is usually  by someone who is under fifty.     

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Re: Hank Williams On My Mind

It's strange how inspiration works, but you certainly came up trump's with this one. What a great song, it has all the elements of a big country hit.     

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Re: Hank Williams On My Mind

Ken
I agree with everything everyone said - That awesome  -it reminds me Rodney Crowell's I walk the line - Revisited where he used JC song in it.

Cool beans my friend

Jim     

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