
If You Call This Loving (co-written with Jimmy Fields).I'm Yvonne Of The Bayou co-written with Jimmy Rule and likely Moon Mullican.I'm So Happy I Found You (lyrics by Williams, recorded by Lucinda Williams for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams).I'm Praying For the Day (co-written with Pee-Wee King).I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome (co-written with Bill Monroe).I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (co-written with Fred Rose).I Told A Lie To My Heart (recorded by Willie Nelson and Hank Williams for Half Nelson).I Lost the Only Love I Knew (co-written with Don Helms).I Hope You Shed a Million Tears (lyrics by Williams, recorded by Vince Gill and Rodney Crowell for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams).(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle (co-written with Jimmie Davis).I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You).How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart? (lyrics by Williams, recorded by Gillian Welch and Norah Jones for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams).Honey, Do You Love Me, Huh? (co-written with Curly Williams).Homesick (lyrics by Williams music composed by Hank Williams, Jr.).



Angel Mine (lyrics by Williams, recorded by Sheryl Crow for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams).Always in Love (co-written with Jimmy Fields).His "live fast, die young" mythology leaves almost as wide a wake as his music - he died in the back of a limousine on the way to a gig in 1953. Many who idolized him would emulate this aspect of his life. Towards the end of his young life, Williams sank deeper and deeper into drug and alcohol abuse.

His direct, stark lyrics made even up-tempo, seemingly lightweight songs take on an undercurrent of foreboding. A versatile writer, Williams penned Gospel songs like "I Saw the Light," dance numbers ("Jambalaya," "Hey Good Lookin'"), as well as those that evoked loneliness, despair, and betrayal ("Cold Cold Heart," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"). He is best known for his nakedly emotional, blues-drenched singing, and stripped down version of proto-Honky Tonk featuring kinetic interplay between the steel guitar and fiddle. From there Williams meteorically ascended to the top of the Country music heap. His first release on MGM Records, "Move It on Over," was a hit. The band's regional popularity led his working as a songwriter for Nashville publisher Fred Rose. Williams grew up in Alabama where he first performed with The Drifting Cowboys as a teenager. When Hank Williams died at the age of 29, he was already a legendary figure whose legacy would only get larger as his place in the canon of American popular song and popular culture became cemented.
