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I'll Start Believing In You Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
I'll Start Believing In You
Written and Recorded by Hank Thompson
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Tell me how the cow jumped
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over the moon
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the little lady lived in a
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shoe
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How Jack on the beanstalk
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climbed to the sky
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Then I'll start believing i
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Tell me how Jack Horner got a
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plumb from his thumb
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how Humpty Dumpty
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fell
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I'm a lot more able t
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o believe in a fable
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Than all the other
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stories you
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tell
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said your diamond ring was just an
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innocent little thing
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got it at a
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Stanley
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party
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parties sure run
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high
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price tag read one thousand and
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forty
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Tell me Cinderella
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did you get your fella
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shoe
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When I've got the time t
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o believe in nursery rhymes
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Then I'll star
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t believing i
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There are stories galore in
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fairy tale lore
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farmer who lived in the
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dell
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e owl and pussy ca
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t know the one about Jack Sprat
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That I'm much rather hear yo
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u
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There's the turtle and the hare th
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e preacher and the bear
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one about the little boy
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blue
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I can do no worse than
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nursery rhyme verse
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Then I'll star
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t believing i
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tipsied in the other day said you'
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d been to the PTA
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swimsuit and an
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olive you were
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eating
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don't wear bikinis o
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r hand ou
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Down at the school house
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meetings
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Four and twenty blackbirds
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baked in a pie
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old fairy tale will
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do
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I believe there's truth i
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n old mother goose
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Then I'll star
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t believing i
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I believe there's truth i
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n old mother goose
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Then I'll star
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FAQ
Who sang the the song I'll Start Believing In You?
- The song I'll Start Believing In You 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.