~ Cold, Cold Heart ~
Uploaded: December 28, 2012
"Cold, Cold Heart" is a country music and popular music song, written by Hank Williams. This blues ballad is both a classic of honky tonk and an entry in the Great American Songbook. Williams first recorded and released the song in 1951, originally as the flip-side to "Dear John". "Dear John" peaked at #8 after only a brief four-week run on Billboard magazine's country music charts, but "Cold, Cold Heart" proved to be a favorite of disk jockeys and jukebox listeners, whose enthusiasm for the song catapulted it to #1 on the country music charts. The song achingly and artfully describes frustration that the singer's love and trust is unreciprocated due to a prior bad experience in the other's past. I was introduced to this song in Grandma's kitchen on WSM-AM 650 from Nashville, Tennessee shortly after its release.
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Exif: F Number: 10, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/60 seconds, Flash: did not fire., ISO: 100, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 112.00 mm, Model: NIKON D200
Jim Baines
December 28, 2012
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I used to be a dashin' rogue
With notches on my belt
Great smile and muscles rippled strong
Could make the ladies melt
But years and yesses take their toll
Upon the manly art
My used-to-be is fantasy
I'm just an Old Cold Fart
No one could know how much it hurts
Sometimes I'll sit 'n' cry
My body needs 'n' wants real love
But organs can't comply..
Two dozen doctor's tests don't fail
It's right there on the chart..
My tires are flat on Lovers Lane
I'm just an Old Cold Fart
The porno films 'n' voyeur stints
Make up for missin' links
Sometimes a pinch of derriere
When I get bold 'n' drink
Young sexy ladies stroll on by
My bench outside Wal*Mart
Destined to be the one they call,
"That kinky Old Cold Fart.."
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Shelly A. Van Camp
December 28, 2012
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Val Feldman
December 28, 2012
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