and Dean Martin sang it and I listened to it eight times tonight.

Wait for the moment where he breathes in a silent pitchfork of straw before touching the whippoorwill's furthest wing. The, the, the hummed chorus almost at a "shoosh" the last time he sings that one and only line - the only line that still stands in country and western to this day : I'm so lonesome I could cry.


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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 a cloud
To hide its face and cry.

Did you ever see a robin weep,
When leaves began 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.