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

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: E

Capo: No

Intro:

N.C.          E E7
I’m so lonesome I could cry.




Verse 1:
E              E7
Hear that lonesome whip-poor-will?
  E     E7   E  E7
He sounds too blue to fly
A         E
The midnight train is whining low
E    B7   E  E7
I'm so lonesome I could cry.

Verse 2:
    E
Did you ever see a Robin weep
E        E7
When leaves begin to die?
   A          E
That means he's lost the will to live
E    B7   E  E
I'm so lonesome I could cry.


Instrumental:
E B7 E


Verse 3:
   E
I've never seen a night so long
E         E7
When time goes crawling by
A        E
The moon just went behind a cloud
E    B7    E  E
To hide its face and cry.


Verse 4:
  E
The silence of a falling star
E      E7
Lights up a purple sky
A      E
And as I wonder where you are
E    B7   E  E
I'm so lonesome I could cry.


Outro:
    E    D    E  E7
I'm so lonesome I could cry.