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Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low, I'm so lonesome I could cry.
I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
Thank you for all the love you gave me. There could be no one stronger. Thank you for the many beautiful songs. They will live long and longer.
You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.... (more Hank Williams quotes)
In the Country Music Hall Of Fame, his plaque reads: “The simple beautiful melodies and straightforward plaintive stories in his lyrics of life as he knew it will never die.”
Hank taught himself to play guitar around the age of ten, by watching other people play.
He made his Grand Ole Opry debut on 11 June 1949 and was fired from the Opry on 11 August 1952, being told not to come back until he was sober.
There is a life size statue of Hank with a guitar in Montgomery, ... (more Hank Williams trivia)
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