How Cold Hearted Can You Get Song Lyrics and Chords
How Cold Hearted Can You Get Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
How Cold Hearted Can You Get
Recorded by Hank Thompson
Written by Hank Thompson & Billy Gray
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While you're honky tonking around all you
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do is run me down
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parted how cold hearted can you
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get
You're telling all your friends what a
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rascal I have been
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parted how cold hearted can you
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remember back when I was
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tall hog at the trough
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Now my money's gone and you have
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really fluffed me off
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You're giving me the blame you ought to
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hang your head in shame
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parted how cold hearted can you
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Now gal I can't forget how you
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got me deep in debt
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parted how cold hearted can you
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get
You said as you slammed the door I was
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square as a four by four
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parted how cold hearted can you
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get
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called me every thing you could
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from a dummy to a dope
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I know that you'd be satisfied if I
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took strychnine and croaked
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When I say that you'll regret you just
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puff that cigarette
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parted how cold hearted can you
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the lies you've told one me
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you'll regret someday
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When Saint Peter says now gal just
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go the other way
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Now I guess you'll say to him it
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was all my fault again
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parted how cold hearted can you
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get
FAQ
Who sang the the song How Cold Hearted Can You Get?
- The song How Cold Hearted Can You Get was sang by Hank Thompson.
Who is Hank Thompson?
- Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 - November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.
Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard. Thompson pursued a "light" version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged however, the "Hank Thompson sound" exceeded Bob Wills in top-40 country hits.
Although not as prominent on the top country charts in later decades, Thompson remained a recording artist and concert draw well into his 80s.
The 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V featured his song "It Don't Hurt Anymore" in the fictional radio show, Rebel Radio.
The 1987 novel Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb was inspired by Thompson's life, specifically by his practice of picking up a local band to back him when he toured. In 2009, Cobb's novel was turned into a successful film directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeff Bridges in an Academy Award-winning performance.