Your Cheatin' Heart (1964)

George Hamilton: Hank Williams

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• Hank Williams : Well, now that you're well on your way to health and happiness, I'd like to sing a little song for your *soul*.

  Ann : [to Shorty and Audrey]  Brace yourself. Here comes the entertainment.

  Hank Williams : [singing]  I went down to the river to watch the fish swim by, But I got to the river so lonesome I wanted to die, oh Lord, And then I jumped in the river, but the doggone river was dry, She's long gone, and now I'm lonesome blue...

• Audrey : She'd like for you to stay.

  Hank Williams : Yeah, well, maybe that's a good enough reason to take off like some big old bird.

• Hank Williams : [singing]  I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin, I wouldn't let my dear savior in, Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night, Praise the Lord, I saw the light. I saw the light, I saw the light, No more darkness, no more night, Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight, Praise the Lord, I saw the light...

• Hank Williams : Well, rooty-tooty, I didn't know you had such refined upbringin'.

• Fred Rose : Hank Williams, you'll never get civilized.

  Hank Williams : Why don't you stop tryin' to reform me and give me a kiss.

• Hank Williams : Mighty nice spot here. What say we take a look around.

  Fred Rose : What for?

  Hank Williams : The lost chord.

• Hank Williams : Lucky I ain't a Yankee, I'd go back up north and tell folks they got people here that just come outta the trees.

• Hank Williams : What you goin' so fast for? Why don't you slow down?

  Audrey Williams : We got places to go.

• Audrey : You got to forget him. Unless you do, you'll always be what you were - and what you *still* are.

  Hank Williams : Woman, ain't you ever gonna quit tryin' to change me?

• Hank Williams : I didn't know there were so many things to do or ways to do 'em!

• Audrey Williams : Why don't you get dressed?

  Hank Williams : Oh, it's hot, darlin'.

  Audrey Williams : Here. I declare, for six months you've been the biggest singer in Shreveport and you walk around in your underwear.

• Hank Williams : What chu want me to do? Love an ice box?

• Hank Williams : [singing]  A picture from the past came slowly stealin', As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you, Then suddenly I got that old time feelin', I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.

• Hank Williams : Woman, who are you to tell me what I am? These are my friends. My kind of people!

• Hank Williams : [drunk, onstage]  Its not often a fella can keep his wife waitin' in front of five or six thousand people. Bet you didn't think I'd make it.

  [blows into the microphone] 

  Hank Williams : Yeah, it works. Now, let me see if I do. Cheatin' heart, fellas.

  [singing] 

  Hank Williams : Your cheatin' heart, Will make you weep, You'll cry and cry, And try to sleep, But sleep won't come, The whole night through, Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...

• Hank Williams : [singing]  Why do you run and hide from life, to try it just ain't smart, Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart...

• Audrey Williams : Hank, don't you want it?

  Hank Williams : Don't I want it? I want it so bad I could taste it!

• Hank Williams : [singing]  Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-oh, Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou...

• Shorty Younger : You're the king and you're killin' yourself. Why?

  Hank Williams : Well, wait a damn minute! Nobody asked me if I wanted to be king!

• Hank Williams : Doctor's tell me I can't ride. So, I just drive them damn Detroit horses.

  Fred Rose : Well, it looks as if the car's taking the worst of it.

• Hank Williams : Modern women talkin' their man's business when they ought to be mindin' their babies.

• Hank Williams : Talkin' what about, Pappy?

  Fred Rose : About the future, Hank.

  Hank Williams : Well, that's interesting. But, you missed something: the past.

• Hank Williams : Do as you damn well please. Cause that's what I'm gonna do. Jefferson, get me a drink.

• Hank Williams : What I was - I am and I always will be.

• Hank Williams : [singing]  Did you ever see a robin weep, When leaves begin to die? That means he's lost the will to live...

• Hank Williams : One song.

  [singing] 

  Hank Williams : Did you hear that lonesome Whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly, The midnight train is whining low, I'm so lonesome, I could cry...

• Hank Williams : Time and place. When and where and who you are. Why, I know exactly what's going on in that mind of yours, "Hank, I know we started out as just a couple of poor kids from Alabama; but, people change." Well, they don't! Are you so dumb you can't understand that?

• Hank Williams : Thank you friends. I'll be back to see you, now. That is, if the good Lord's willin' and creeks don't dry.