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Cold, Cold Heart

"Cold, Cold Heart" is a country music and pop song written and first recorded by Hank Williams. This blues ballad is both a classic of honky-tonk and an entry in the Great American Songbook.

This article is about the Hank Williams song. For other uses, see Cold, Cold Heart (disambiguation).

"Cold, Cold Heart"

"Dear John"

1950

February 16, 1951 (1951-02-16) Acuff-Rose Publications[1]

February 2, 1951[2]

December 21, 1950[3]

Castle Studio, Tulane Hotel, Nashville

Country & Western, Honky-tonk, Country blues

2:46

MGM K10904

Hank Williams

"While We're Young"

July 2, 1951 (1951-07-02)

May 31, 1951[11]

Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City

Pop[12]

2:38

Columbia

Hank Williams

Percy Faith

Jazz singer included a sultry swing version on her 2002 album Come Away With Me, which was seen as "re-introducing" modern audiences to the song.[16][17]

Norah Jones

Singer-songwriter earned a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her cover of the song in 2002.[18]

Lucinda Williams

Use in media[edit]

During the credits for the 2013 videogame Batman: Arkham Origins, the Joker, voiced by Troy Baker, can be heard singing the song.


A quest in the 2010 post-apocalyptic open world action-RPG Fallout: New Vegas uses this song as its name.

Escott, Colin; Merritt, George; MacEwen, William (2004). Hank Williams: The Biography. New York: Little, Brown.