Baby We're Really In Love - Hank Williams

Baby We're Really In Love - Hank Williams

single, 1951

Written by Hank Williams

With lyrics evoking the goofy talk of the doe-eyed fallen hard into puppy love ("I run around in circles / And turn in fire alarms / I'm nutty as a fruitcake / When you're not in my arms"), I doubt that Hank wrote a song as cheerful as this one.  Its brisk honky-tonk energy could even be said to hint at rock 'n' roll tempo, and in the message there's even a winking hint at sex — in country music, circle 1951, gasp!

Six More Miles (To the Graveyard) - Hank Williams

Six More Miles (To the Graveyard) - Hank Williams
2:47
single, 1948
Written by Hank Williams

The narrator of this cowboy lament is on his way to meet the train that carries his dead love.  "Oh I hear that train a comin' / Bringin' my darling back home / Six more miles to the graveyard / Never on this earth no more to roam."  There's a pure honky-tonk sound here, the guitars slapping like percussion and Williams lingering over the syllables like a yodeler — and yet it also perfectly captures an eerie, hushed feeling of gloom.  Somehow Williams could do it all.