I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

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lyricist and composer:	Hank Williams (country music legend)

publisher:	Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Germany) GmbH (2002–today) Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc. (BMI) (on 1949-10-31) Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music (tradename of Sony/ATV Songs LLC) (from 2002 to present)

SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/work/3824 [info]
Wikidata:	Q671197 [info]

later translated versions:	’k Ben alleen zodat ik ween Nunca se lo digan
is the basis for:	Vü föd ned
lyrics quoted in:	Song for Another Time

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	recordings
1949-08-30	I Am So Lonesome I Could Cry		Hank Williams	2:52
1949-08-30	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry		Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys	?:??
1949-08-30	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry		Hank Williams	?:??
1949-08-30	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry		Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys	2:48
1962-11-23	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry		Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys	2:11
1965-05-04	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (5/04/1965, Savoy Hotel, London)		Bob Dylan	0:51
1965-05-04	Lost Highway / I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and medley	Bob Dylan	2:06
1966-05-20	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (mono)	cover	Bill Anderson	2:20
1966-05-20	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Bill Anderson	2:18
1966	I’m So Lonesome (I Could Cry)	cover and live	Townes Van Zandt	?:??
1969-02-27	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry		Roy Orbison	2:57
1969	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and live	Hank Williams, Jr.	2:36
1971-05-25	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Little Richard	2:38
1972-07	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Tanya Tucker	2:53
1972-11-23	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and live	Doug Sahm, Jerry Garcia & Leon Russell	?:??
1973-01-12	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (The Alternate Aloha version)	cover and live	Elvis Presley	2:17
1973-01-12	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 1973‐01‐12, Honolulu International Center, Honolulu, HI, USA)	cover and live	Elvis Presley	2:18
1973-01-14	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 1973‐01‐14: Honolulu International Center, Honolulu, HI, USA)	cover and live	Elvis Presley	2:15
1973-01-14	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and live	Elvis Presley	2:14
1973-01-26	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (rehearsal, 1973-01-26: Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, NV, USA)	cover	Elvis Presley	3:52
1973-06-07	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Glen Campbell	2:28
1973-11	I’m So Lonesaome I Could Cry (recorded early November 1973, at Sam Thompson’s House, Memphis)	cover	Elvis Presley	2:16
1973-11	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Elvis Presley	1:46
1973	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (private recording)	cover	Elvis Presley	1:51
1975-09-07	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / Unknown. Instrumental (live, 1975-09-07: The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)	cover, live and partial	Jackson Browne	5:44
1981	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 1981: The Tom Jones Show, Vancouver, Canada)	cover and live	Tom Jones	2:33
1985	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Waylon Jennings	2:33
1986-03-26	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	live	Liz Meyer with High Country	3:07
1986	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	The Residents	3:11
1987-06	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Grateful Dead & Bob Dylan	?:??
1987-06	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry / Blues Stay Away From Me	cover	Grateful Dead & Bob Dylan	?:??
1987-11-27	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Cowboy Junkies	5:25
1988-05-03	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (soundcheck, 1988‐05‐03: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA)	cover and live	Bruce Springsteen	5:06
1988-05-03	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (soundcheck, 1988‐05‐03: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA)	cover and live	Bruce Springsteen	?:??
1988-05-03	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (soundcheck, 1988‐05‐03: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA)	cover and live	Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band	1:50
1989-07-25	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 1989-07-25: Ontario Place Forum, Toronto, Canada)	cover and live	Cowboy Junkies	5:53
1993-11-21	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 1993-11-21: K-Rock Hungerthon Rent Party, New York City, NY, USA)	cover and live	Southside Johnny & Little Steven	4:25
1996-09-11	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Buffalo, NY 9‒11‒96) (live, 1996‐09‐11: Buffalo, NY, USA)	cover and live	Cowboy Junkies	6:51
2001-06-23	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 2001-06-23: Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA, USA (IA))	cover and live	The Mountain Goats	2:53
2003-03-29	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 2003‐03‐29: Millenaris Park, Budapest, Hungary)	instrumental and live	Bill Frisell	8:41
2003-09-27	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 2003-09-27: Mercury, Austin, TX, USA)	cover and live	The Mountain Goats	2:36
2004-11	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Danny Summer	?:??
2005-02	I'm So Lonesome, I Could Cry	instrumental	Bill Frisell, Ron Carter & Paul Motian	7:56
2005-05-27	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and live	Laura Veirs	2:22
2006-02-26	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 2006-02-26: Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO, USA)	cover and live	Cowboy Junkies	8:47
2007-05-18	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 2007‐05‐18: Brownfield, ME, USA)	cover and live	Cowboy Junkies	6:07
2010-04-12	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (live, 2010‐04‐12: Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA, USA)	instrumental and live	Bill Frisell, Jason Moran & Kenny Wollesen	5:25
2010	I’m So Lonesome (I Could Cry)	cover	Catherine Reed	3:05
2015-01	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Emily Barker	2:25
2016-04-03 – 2016-04-04	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	instrumental	John Scofield	7:01
	I Am So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Stephan Eicher	2:05
	I'm So Lonely I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	?:??
	I'm So Lonely I Could Cry		Al Green	3:14
	I'm So Lonely I Could Cry	cover and live	Glen Campbell	3:25
	I'm So Lonely I Could Cry		Hank Williams, Jr.	?:??
	I'm So Lonely I Could Cry	cover	B.J. Thomas	3:07
	I'm So Lonely I Could Cry (Alternate Version)	cover	B.J. Thomas	3:13
	I'm So Lonesome Could Cry		Hank Williams	2:42
	I'm so Lonesome I Could Cre		Al Green	?:??
	I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and live	Glen Campbell	3:56
	I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry		Deadbeat & Camara	5:18
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Sarah Beth	3:09
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	David Bridie	3:35
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Johnny Cash	2:43
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Martin Fontaine	2:17
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Joni James	3:01
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	2:26
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	?:??
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Johnny Cash	2:38
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Mark Dinning	?:??
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	2:22
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Linda Plowman	2:26
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	2:23
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	2:21
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	?:??
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	2:20
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Johnny Cash	2:41
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	2:22
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Margaret Whiting	2:47
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry		B.J. Thomas	3:06
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	?:??
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Joni James	3:00
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Hurray for the Riff Raff	4:34
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Holly Cole Trio	4:25
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	?:??
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Billie Jo Spears	?:??
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Glen Campbell	3:26
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Kathy Chiavola	3:25
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and live	Glen Campell	3:25
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Glen Campbell	3:19
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and live	Glen Campbell	3:26
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and live	Glen Campbell	3:12
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry		Andy Williams	2:41
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Glen Campbell	?:??
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Bim	3:58
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Joni James	3:00
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and live	Glen Campbell	3:26
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover and live	Glen Campbell	3:36
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	cover	Roy Acuff	?:??
	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry		Hank Williams Jr.	2:30
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