Tiny Broken Heart
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"Tiny Broken Heart" is a song written by Eddie Hill, Charlie Louvin, and Ira Louvin. The Louvin Brothers recorded it in 1956 for their first album, Tragic Songs of Life. It has since become a bluegrass standard.
[edit] Cover versions
- Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard for one of their 1960s recordings. A remastered version appears on Pioneering Women of Bluegrass, (1996, Smithsonian Folkways).
- Doc Watson also recorded the song in the early sixties, but did not release it. Later it emerged on Songs From the Southern Mountians (1994, Sugar Hill)
- The Bluegrass Cardinals, for their Home is Where the Heart Is (1984, Sugar Hill).
- Dan Tyminski included it on his solo album, Carry Me Across the Mountian (2000, Doobie Shea) and performed it with Alison Krauss and Union Station for Live (2002, Rounder)
[edit] External links
lyrics from bluegrasslyrics.com