“Have you ever heard a Whip-o-Wil just before he dies”
Is that an alternative lyric, or did you make it up? It's good.
I kind of made it up. It’s off of an old Hank Williams tune he supposedly wrote in a hour while flying on an airliner.
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 begin to die? That means 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
