Perhaps best known for his distinct yodelling, he charted more than seventy singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980, including the Number One hits 'I'm Movin' On' and 'I Don't Hurt Anymore'. Performing in lavish and colourful sequin-studded suits, Snow had a career covering six decades during which he sold more than 80 million albums, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1979.
THERE IS A HANK SNOW MUSEUM CLOSE TO BROOKLYN IN LIVERPOOL, NOVA SCOTIA, APPROPRIATELY, IT IS HOUSED IN AN ABANDONED TRAIN STATION. VERY WELL DONE
I reckon Hank Snow was better known for his distinctive self taught guitar style. Hank was influenced by the famous Rail road blues singer Jimmie Rodgers and though Hank did copy Rodgers style in his early days, including the "blue yodel" he later abandoned this and developed his own gritty style of singing. His guitar playing was so good he once cut a duet album of guitar music with the late Chet Atkins, master country Guitarist and music producer for RCA Victor. Hank was with RCA Victor label for almost 50 years and towards the end of his waning career RCA dropped him, just before he would have celebrated his half century with that label-always thought that was a bit mean of them.. Hank Snow and his Rainbow ranch boys, with Chubby Hayes on fiddle gave really great live concerts and the singing and playing they did was superlative and sounded as good as, if not equal to their recorded works.
Sweet Dreams
Hank Snow Lyrics
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Why can't I forget you and start my life anew
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
You don't love me it's plain
I should know you'll never wear my name
I should hate you the whole night through
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
Sweet dreams of you
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
The lyrics to Hank Snow's song "Sweet Dreams" are focused on a narrator who is unable to move on from a past love. The singer confesses that they are plagued with thoughts of their ex-lover each night, unable to forget them and start anew. The singer acknowledges that their love interest does not reciprocate their feelings and realistically, will never agree to marry them. Despite this knowledge, the singer finds themselves unable to hate their past love interest and instead spends restless nights filled with sweet dreams of their memory. The lyrics present a conflicting inner turmoil in the singer, torn between the reality of the situation and the nostalgic power of past memories.
Line by Line Meaning
Sweet dreams of you every night I go through
Every night, I can't help but dream of you
Why can't I forget you and start my life anew
I'm struggling to move on from you and begin a fresh life
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
Rather than constantly dreaming of you
You don't love me it's plain
It's obvious that you don't love me
I should know you'll never wear my name
I'm aware that you'll never be mine
I should hate you the whole night through
I should feel nothing but hatred towards you all night
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
Rather than constantly dreaming of you
Sweet dreams of you
I can't help but have sweet dreams of you
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
Rather than constantly dreaming of you
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Don Gibson
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
purlin31622
on On The Beach At Waikiki
Should be spelled 'Honikau, a wikiwiki' per original 1915 sheet music at https://www.sheetmusicsinger.com/on-the-beach-at-waikiki/
Lowrie
on Galveston Rose
Lyric shouldn't have a question mark at the end; no big deal!