I Don't Want to Know Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
I Don't Want to Know
Recorded by Hank Thompson
Written by
Hank Thompson and Don Clay
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They say what you don't know will never
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hurt
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you don't see won't ever bother you at
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all
So if you see my sweetheart with
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Don't
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tell me you just make the teardrops
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fall
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Let me go on thinking I'm the
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lucky
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And deep within her heart she loves me
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so
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If there are unfaithful things that
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she has done
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Please don't tell me I don't want to
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know
You may think you're doing me a
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favor
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telling me the things that you have
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seen
But you're just lighting fuses of de
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struction
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You are just destroying my
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dreams
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Of every reason to believe she's
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kind and true
And in my heart I think she loves me
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so
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I'd be broken hearted if I
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heard from you
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All the things that I don't want to
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know
FAQ
Who sang the the song I Don't Want to Know?
- The song I Don't Want to Know 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.
