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Song · 1949 · Country

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

1949

★ 8.5 editorial score

Issued as a B-side because jukeboxes wanted uptempo, with Jerry Byrd's steel guitar shadowing every line Williams sings.

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40 Greatest Hits

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Genre

Subject

Loneliness Despair

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Book · 1849

The Sickness Unto Death

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The Artist Moved to Despair at the Grandeur of Antique Fragments

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