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"Lovesick Blues" Lyrics

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See I'm under that same spell
Trace the face of an angel
Love sick blues and I ain't well
Loneliness, is when the kiss of death's your only kiss
And true love is a myth cause it doesn't exist
It's like being struck by the fist of a pacifist
It's a cancerous bliss
Who's your master in this? And who's he work for?
Love can make a free man a slave and make him hurt more
Than a life sentence spent with jealousy
Man if love is blind, how can it always follow me?

[Chorus]

It was all a dream
Satan wore Satin and God rocked gabberdein
Angels in ancient apparel, denim wearing demons
And there was love, looking like a heathen
And there was love looking like a reason to exist
Bleeding at the wrist evening the risk
I'm easin' down the abyss of misfortune
Is love all we need or an extortion?
I approach with honesty to be honorable
But honesty was unemployed and didn't work anymore
And jealousy was with love lookin' envious
And anywhere I went with love jealousy would come with us
And jealousy would always be the treachery of deceit
The treasury of the weak
I couldn't see my love blinded by jealousy
While God was demonic and the devil laughed angelically

[Chorus]

You see,
Love is the only invincible feeling, pure yet it's haunted
Given it's the only thing we need,
but when given to freely from the needy we don't want it
So we lose it, spend our days tryin' to find it
When we find it we spend our days walking blinded
Blinded by happiness, jealousy, most times spent confused
Hate to love it but I do, and them's the love sick, blues
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AddedMarch 12th, 2010
Last updatedMarch 6th, 2022
About"Lovesick Blues" is a show tune written by Cliff Friend and Irving Mills. The song first appeared in the 1922 musical Oh, Ernest. It was recorded by Emmett Miller in 1928 and later by country music singer Rex Griffin. The recordings by Griffin and Miller inspired Hank Williams to perform the song during his first appearances on the Louisiana Hayride in 1948. Receiving an enthusiastic reception from the audience, Williams decided to record his own version despite initial push back from his producer Fred Rose and his band.

MGM Records released "Lovesick Blues" in February 1949, and it became an overnight success, quickly reaching number one on Billboard's Top C&W singles and number 24 on the Most Played in Jukeboxes list. The publication named it the top country and western record of the year, while Cashbox named it "Best Hillbilly Record of the Year".

Several cover versions of the song have been recorded. The most popular, Frank Ifield's 1962 version, topped the UK Singles Chart. In 2004, Williams' version was added to the National Recording Registry.

"Lovesick Blues" was originally entitled "I've Got the Lovesick Blues" and published by Jack Mills, Inc. in 1922; Irving Mills authored the lyrics and Cliff Friend composed the music. It was first performed by Anna Chandler in the Tin Pan Alley musical Oh! Ernest and first recorded by Elsie Clark on March 21, 1922 with Okeh Records. Following the recording, Cliff and Friend copyrighted the song on April 3, 1922. It was featured in a show at the Boardwalk Club in New York City in June 1922 and also recorded by Jack Shea on Vocalion Records later that summer.

On September 1, 1925, OKeh Records sent scout Ralph Peer and a recording crew to Asheville, North Carolina. Among the aspiring artists recorded by Peer was Emmett Miller. Accompanied by Walter Rothrock on the piano, Miller cut four sides for the label, including "Lovesick Blues". The single was paired with "Big Bad Bill (is Sweet William Now)" and released in November 1925. On June 12, 1928 accompanied by the Georgia Crackers (Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, and Leo McConville), Miller re-recorded the song, which was subsequently released to weak sales. Miller's version was covered by country music singer Rex Griffin in December 1939 on Decca Records. Griffin rearranged the song by using the original chorus - "I got a feeling called the blues"—as a verse and turning the verse "I'm in love, I'm in love, with a beautiful gal" into the new chorus.

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