I Tried So Hard, My Dear, To Show
That You're My Every Dream
Yet You're Afraid Each Thing I Do
Is Just Some Evil Scheme

A Memory From Your Lonesome Past
Keeps Us So Far Apart
Why Can't I Free Your Doubtful Mind
And Melt Your Cold, Cold Heart?

Another Love, Before My Time,
Made Your Heart Sad An' Blue,
And So My Heart Is Paying Now
For Things I Didn't Do

In Anger, Unkind Words Are Said
That Make The Teardrops Start
Why Can't I Free Your Doubtful Mind
And Melt Your Cold, Cold Heart?



There Was A Time When I Believed
That You Belonged To Me
But Now I Know Your Heart Is Shackled
To A Memory

The More I Learn To Care For You
The More We Drift Apart
Why Can't I Free Your Doubtful Mind
And Melt Your Cold, Cold Heart?

Words And Music By Hank Williams, 1951