I was born on the day Hank Williams died And his high lonesome voice laid a curse on my life Moaning like the midnight train lonesome and gone And I'm left here to live out my life in his songs
A silent falling star, moonlight through the pines The cry of the whipoorwill chills my spine I followed the fiddle, I lived every line I'm living his life and he's living mine
Chorus: Hank Williams, Hank Williams what did I do to you? Why do you haunt me when your singin' the blues? You took my heart and my soul and you wrote them in rhyme You put my whole life to music in waltz time
Rolling down a lost highway I curse the day Your cheating heart led me astray It was the wine and the women that done me wrong Living my life in a Hank Williams song
So I sit here alone with a tear in my beer I know who's been haunting me all of these years Looking back on my crossroads and the bridges I've burned The voice of Hank Williams always returns.