Getting closer...Hank Williams...[ video - 2:12 min }

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[virgil283]

"Oh, dont you know that Jesus died to wash your sins away Oh, please heed His call, in sin dont fall Were getting closer to the grave each day

Were getting closer to the grave each day Mortal man, wont you stop now and pray Leave the road of sin alone, let Jesus lead you home Were getting closer to the grave each day

They nailed His hands, they pierced His sides On His head the thorns did lay Be prepared to go, one thing we know We're getting closer to the grave each day

On the judgment day, when the book is read There'll be no use to pray So each day you live, love and forgive We're getting closer to the grave each day"

video - 2:12 min

[virgil283]

... "Jesus was a friend of publicans and sinners"

[doc1019]

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[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Oh maaaaaaaaaaan, I am like a total Hank fanatic! Best thread ever! I listen to him every day! “No matter how I struggle and strive....I’ll never get out of this world alive!”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

The guy was an absolute musical genius and of course the Lord had to take him away. Like my brother says, the Lord always does because he can’t allow that much heaven on earth at one time.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Jambalaya is my favorite song just cause l love to sing it, I knew all the words like the back of my hand since I was a kid and I grew up in Queens New York city lol

Goodbye Joe me gotta go, me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the piro down de bayou
My Yvonne, the sweetest one me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we’ll have good fun on de bayou

Jambalaya a crawfish pie and a filet gumbo
Cause tonight Im gonna see my machez amio
Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be a gay o
Son of a gun we’ll have big fun on de bayou.

[greeneyes]

Love this song too. First time I heard it was when little Brenda Lee sang it. She was just a little whipper snapper no bigger than a minute.

[JimSEA]

“Listen poor sinner; you’re driftin’ away
From the Dear Saviour; who’s pleading today
What will you do; when the Saviour ain’t nigh
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?”

[Fiji Hill]

MGM Records released “Getting Closer” in the spring of 1957—more than four years after Hank Williams’ death.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Best lyrics of all time. They don’t get any better than that. I love Youtube because you can hear all them old radio shows Hank use to sing on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XJ0FFr_a8

[kabumpo]

Whereas I am craaaazzy about Hank Jr.

[VerySadAmerican]

He was singing “I saw the light” from the front seat of his Cadillac. He turned to Minnie Pearl in the back seat and said “That’s just it, Minnie. There ain’t no light. There ain’t no light.” Within a few days he was dead. The greatest songwriter of all times.

“There’s a tear in my beer cause I’m crying for you dear.
You are always on my mind.
Into these last few beers I have cried a million tears.
You are always on my mind.

[Fresh Wind]

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry

I’ve never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves began to die?
Like me he’s lost the will to live
I’m so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I’m so lonesome I could cry

[ravenwolf]

No argument here, hank really believed in Jesus.

There are so many that i can think of as my favorites but the one that has stayed with me since i was about 12 years old and has shaped much of what i believe the message that Jesus tells us is

Be careful of the stones that you throw.

I don,t know who wrote the song but i think there is no doubt Hank fervently believed it.

I walked into a truck stop in Texas in 1988 and the jukebox was playing Hank,s your cheating heart, sitting there for about an hour it played steady, and at least 50 percent was Hank Williams.

It was just like going back 35 years, back home.