Lyr Add: The Late and Great Love (Hank Snow)

Subject: Lyr Add: LATE AND GREAT LOVE (Cindy Walker)
From: Cruiser
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 12:05 PM

Dan Evergreen wrote about this Hank Snow song on December 21, 1999:

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My favorite was, "The Late and Great Love of My Heart." I have always intended to learn it. Does anybody have the chords and lyrics? {End Quote}

Dan, I don't think you are still around Mudcat, but I will provide the lyrics (which I have not found during any Internet search) to what is also my favorite Hank Snow song. The lyrics transcription is from the 45 rpm record, RCA 9523, I own and the link listed below.

The Late and Great Love (of My Heart)
Hank Snow 1968

There she goes there she goes
With her blue eyes all aglow
The late and great love of my heart

And though she's gone from me
She will always, always be
The mate that fate meant for my heart

Bridge:

Foolish sentimental fool am I
I should find a new love, but I've said goodbye
To the thought of all love, in loving memory of
The late and great love of my heart

Instrumental break

There she goes there she goes
In her pretty wedding clothes
The late and great love of my heart

She loves him more than me
But she'll always, always be
The real ideal love of my heart

Foolish sentimental fool am I
I should find a new love, but I've said goodbye
To the thought of all love, in loving memory of
The late and great love of my heart
The late and great love of my heart

This song debuted on 6/8/68, charted for 13 weeks, and reached a peak chart position of 20 (from the Billboard book: Joel Whitburn's Top Country Singles 1944-1993).

The song can be heard on Request Page Fourteen at The Record Lady's All Time Country Favorites

Cruiser