Cover art for Endless Sleep by Hank Williams Jr.

Endless Sleep

Hank Williams Jr.
Track 6 on Living Proof: The MGM Recordings 1963-1975 

Producer

Jim Vienneau
19661 viewer

Endless Sleep Lyrics

The night was black rain falling down look for my baby she's nowhere around
Traced her footsteps down to the shore afraid she's gone for evermore
I looked at the sea and it seemed to say I took your baby from you away
I heard a voice cryin' in deep come join me baby in my endless sleep

Why did we quarrel why did we fight why did I leave her alone tonight
That's why her footsteps ran into the sea that's why my baby has gone from me
I looked at the sea...

Ran in the water heart full of fear there in the breakers I saw her near
Reached for my darling held her to me stole her away from the angry sea
I looked at the sea and it seemed to say you took your baby from me away
My heart cried out she's mine to keep I saved my baby from that endless sleep
Endless sleep endless sleep endless sleep

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Living Proof: The MGM Recordings 1963-1975 (1992)
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  2. 2.
    Your Cheatin’ Heart
  3. 3.
    Ramblin’ Man
  4. 4.
    Long Gone Lonesome Blues
  5. 5.
    Mule Skinner Blues
  6. 6.
    Endless Sleep
  7. 7.
    The Blizzard
  8. 8.
    Slow Rider (Missing Lyrics)
  9. 9.
    The River
  10. 10.
    Nobody’s Child (Missing Lyrics)
  11. 11.
    I Threw Away The Rose (Missing Lyrics)
  12. 12.
    Least Of All, You (Missing Lyrics)
  13. 13.
    Blues My Name
  14. 14.
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  15. 15.
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  16. 16.
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  17. 17.
    Meter Reader Maid (Missing Lyrics)
  18. 18.
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  19. 19.
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  20. 20.
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  21. 21.
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  22. 22.
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  23. 23.
    This Heart Of Mine (Missing Lyrics)
  24. 24.
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  25. 25.
    Slowly (Missing Lyrics)
  26. 26.
    I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (Missing Lyrics)
  27. 27.
    Alabam (Missing Lyrics)
  28. 28.
    Pan American (Missing Lyrics)
  29. 29.
    Please Make Up Your Mind (Missing Lyrics)
  30. 30.
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  31. 31.
    It’s All Over But The Crying
  32. 32.
    Somebody’s Lonesome (Missing Lyrics)
  33. 33.
    Wandering Astray (Missing Lyrics)
  34. 34.
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  35. 35.
    Homesick
  36. 36.
    Cajun Baby
  37. 37.
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  38. 38.
    A House Of Gold (Missing Lyrics)
  39. 39.
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  40. 40.
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  41. 41.
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  42. 42.
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  43. 43.
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  44. 44.
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  45. 45.
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  46. 46.
    I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Missing Lyrics)
  47. 47.
    Ain’t That A Shame (Missing Lyrics)
  48. 48.
    Rainin’ In My Heart
  49. 49.
    I’ve Got a Right to Cry
  50. 50.
    Rainy Night In Georgia
  51. 51.
    All For the Love of Sunshine
  52. 52.
    Eleven Roses
  53. 53.
    We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds (Missing Lyrics)
  54. 54.
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  55. 55.
    No One’s Sorrier Than Me (Missing Lyrics)
  56. 56.
    Pride’s Not Hard to Swallow
  57. 57.
    The Last Love Song
  58. 58.
    Cold, Cold Ground
  59. 59.
    Hank
  60. 60.
    On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain (Missing Lyrics)
  61. 61.
    Alone And Forsaken (Missing Lyrics)
  62. 62.
    I Cried Again (Missing Lyrics)
  63. 63.
    I’ll Think Of Something
  64. 64.
    Angels Are Hard To Find
  65. 65.
    Getting Over You
  66. 66.
    Free Born Man
  67. 67.
    The Night Time And My Baby
  68. 68.
    Honky Tonkin’
  69. 69.
    Satin Sheets
  70. 70.
    Country Love
  71. 71.
    My Girl (Missing Lyrics)
  72. 72.
    Kind of Woman I Got
  73. 73.
    There’s a Devil in the Bottle
  74. 74.
    Stoned at the Jukebox
  75. 75.
    Montana Song
  76. 76.
    On Susan’s Floor
  77. 77.
    Clovis, New Mexico
  78. 78.
    Brothers Of The Road (Missing Lyrics)
  79. 79.
    I Really Did
  80. 80.
    Losin’ You
  81. 81.
    Can’t You See
  82. 82.
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1966
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