Answer:
Great song to wonder about! ~LL.
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Goodbye Hank Williams, my friend
I didn't know you...
But I've been to places you've been
In Richmond, where they'd just been
For some, seats could not be found
But they planned to see him again
Next time.. Hank Williams.. came to town
Hardly nobody knew that night
How soon they'd be crying
Hardly nobody knew that night
Hank Williams... was dying
He sang from his heart,
Took the pain for his fans
Who watched the pain in his heart
And they sat, and then...
they clapped their hands.
Goodbye Hank Williams, my friend
I didn't know you...
But I've been t'places you've been
Chauffeur steared the car that night
To the town next in line for a show
With his name, and the date, in lights
And the people, with tickets, to go
Hardly nobody knew that night
How soon they'd be crying
Hardly nobody knew that night
Hank Williams was dying
Goodbye Hank Williams, my friend
I didn't know you...
But I've been - places you've been
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The 'live' version flips the first and second
verses, and replaces the third with:
"Whiskey took the heartbreak
From too many broken dreams
What pain wasn't taken by the whiskey
Was given by too much morphine"