PARTS: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass All
KEY: bold = first beat of bar ^ = rest Underline = triplet backing vocal = [text]
193 - Cold Cold Heart
Verse 1
I tried so hard, my Dear, to show that you’re my ev’ry dream
Yet you’re afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme.
A mem’ry from your lonesome past keeps us so far apa---rt
Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart.
Verse 2
Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn’t do
In anger, unkind words are said that make the teardrops sta---rt
Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart.
Turnaround
Verse 3
You’ll never know how much it hurts to see you sit and cry
You know you need and want my love yet you’re afraid to try
Why do you run and hide from life? To try it just ain’t sma---rt
Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart.
Verse 4
There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory
The more I learn to care for you the more we drift apa---rt
Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart.
Words and music by Hank Williams The first draft of the song is dated November 23, 1950, and was recorded with an unknown band on May 5, 1951. The song would become a pop hit for Tony Bennett around that time, paving the way for country songs to make inroads into the lucrative pop market. In the liner notes to the 1990 Polygram compil-ation Hank Williams: The Original Single Collection, Fred Rose's son Wesley states, "Hank earned two major distinctions as a songwriter: he was the first writer on a regular basis to make country music national music; and he was the first country songwriter accepted by pop artists, and pop artists and repertoire men." SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold,_Cold_Heart