Thats An Awful Lot Of Heartaches For A dime

This is my interpretation of this song.

written by: Harlan Howard
Performed by: Wynn Stewart, Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens to name a few.


THATS AN AWFUL LOT OF HEARTACHES FOR A DIME

I CALLED YOU ON THE PHONE TO SAY I LOVE YOU
AND THAT I WOULD STOP BY FOR YOU AT NINE
MY HEART BROKE WHEN YOU SAID IT'S ALL OVER
THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS TAKING ALL YOUR TIME

CHORUS:
THAT'S AN AWFUL LOT OF HEARTACHES FOR A DIME
I'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT MADE YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND
I ONLY KNOW I'VE HELD YOU CLOSE AND KISSED YOU MY LAST TIME
AND THAT'S AN AWFULL LOT OF HEARTACHES FOR A DIME

I WENT DOWNTOWN TO JOIN THE MARRY MAKERS
AND TOLD MYSELF THAT HERE'S WHERE I BELONG
I THOUGHT THAT I COULD GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU
UNTIL I HEARD SOMEBODY PLAY OUR SONG

CHORUS:

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Harlan Howard
• Classic Country.

[oscarshwartz]

Your right Roy, Harlan and Wynn Stewart wrote it and Wynn recorded it. I used to sing it when I was still playing, but never did hear it too much on the radio. You did a great rendition of it!!!---Lee

[ROYS5166]

Glad you liked it they wrote quite a few songs.

[no1countryfan]

Nice job Roy.I'm glad you did it,cause i only sing in the shower...don't want the neighbourhood dogs howling anymore then they have to.lol

[ROYS5166]

Aw come on bust loose with one, Just get brave.

[no1countryfan]

perhaps after the dog catcher takes the mutts off to the pound,i'll give it another try.but the women in the neighbourhood said if i walked around naked again they would report me to the local nut house.

[no1countryfan]

Thanks for the encouragement, but the howling from those mutts is really annoying.but.....maybe a

[rbwinn3]

I don't remember his name. They had a music room at the hospital, and I used to go with him there to play guitars. If he didn't write it, he had the staff of the hospital convinced he did, because they wrote an article about him in the hospital newsletter. Another country tearjerker is born. He was a good singer. After they wrote the article about the song, I believed he wrote it. Once in a while after that, the words of that song would go through my mind. Never heard it again till now.

[ROYS5166]

Buck Owens, Wynn Stewart both recorded it and have found Harlan Howard and Wynn Steward as the song writer so dont realy know, Do you remember the guys name.

[ROYS5166]

That was an awesome story, Thanks for the info. The song itself tells a pretty good story.

[rbwinn3]

I knew the guy who wrote this. We were both locked up in the psychiatric ward of the V.A. hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi, right after coming back from the Vietnam War. He used to sing us this song and tell us he wrote it. We did not know whether to believe him or not until they ran an article in the hospital newsletter about it. Nobody had recorded it as far as I know back then. This is the first I have heard it since I heard him sing it.