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Hear the lonesome whippoorwill

He sounds too blue to fly

The midnight train is whining low

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

I never seen a night so long

When times goes crawling by

The moon just went behind a cloud

To hide it's face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep

When leaves began to die?

Like me 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

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