That's The Recipe For A Heartache Song Lyrics and Chords
That's The Recipe For A Heartache Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
That's The Recipe For A Heartache
Recorded by Hank Thompson
Written by Billy Gray and Hank Thompson
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Take a little cheatin' here and a little cheatin' there
Stay out late with a
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new
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Take a little cheer with another round of beer
That's my recipe for
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a
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Well tell the little gal you're with an old pal
Who's celebratin' his
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new name sake
It's not a new birth but a gal's that's worth
Another chance on the
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heartache
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old girlfriend happens in
Your
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office without
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warning
The
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good times start with an old sweetheart
And you
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don't get home till morning
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You can't deny your wife's reply
Your lipstick isn'
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t on straight
You're gonna hear a holler about the red on your collar
That's a recipe for
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a
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You take a slow train and not a jet plane
Because you wanna go on
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the
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There's a gal you gotta see in apartment B
You really thing that you've pulled
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a cool one
Coming home from a trip and your wife has a lip
Waitin' at the door al
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l
puckered
You gotta a real recipe for a heartache to be
When you crawl in bed all
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tuckered
If your
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wife is leery when you say deary
I gotta
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make a fast
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connection
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sure your pet that it's the jet
With
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turbine fuel injection
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When you took Lorain down the country lane
And your wife caught you in the
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cane
break
You couldn't explain about raising cane
And that's a recipe for
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a
heartache
So
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live it up don't give it up
If
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misery is your
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favorite
cup
Just lead this life and lose your wife
That's th
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e recipe for
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a
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FAQ
Who sang the the song That's The Recipe For A Heartache?
- The song That's The Recipe For A Heartache 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.
