I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry chords by The Carter Family

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: E MajorE

Capo: No

Intro:

N.C.          E MajorE E7E7
I’m so lonesome I could cry.



Verse 1:
E MajorE              E7E7
Hear that lonesome whip-poor-will?
  E MajorE     E7E7   E MajorE  E7E7
He sounds too blue to fly
A augmentedA         E MajorE
The midnight train is whining low
E MajorE    B7B7   E MajorE  E7E7
I'm so lonesome I could cry.

Verse 2:
    E MajorE
Did you ever see a Robin weep
E MajorE        E7E7
When leaves begin to die?
   A augmentedA          E MajorE
That means he's lost the will to live
E MajorE    B7B7   E MajorE  E MajorE
I'm so lonesome I could cry.


Instrumental:
E MajorE B7B7 E MajorE


Verse 3:
   E MajorE
I've never seen a night so long
E MajorE         E7E7
When time goes crawling by
A augmentedA        E MajorE
The moon just went behind a cloud
E MajorE    B7B7    E MajorE  E MajorE
To hide its face and cry.


Verse 4:
  E MajorE
The silence of a falling star
E MajorE      E7E7
Lights up a purple sky
A augmentedA      E MajorE
And as I wonder where you are
E MajorE    B7B7   E MajorE  E MajorE
I'm so lonesome I could cry.


Outro:
    E MajorE    D MajorD    E MajorE  E7E7
I'm so lonesome I could cry.