Your Cheatin Heart

Elvis Presley version by Viking Cowboy Released: 1965 Album: Elvis for Everyone Artist: Elvis Presley Your Cheatin Heart was written by Hank Williams Williams wrote this shortly after divorcing his wife, Audrey Mae Sheppard. They married in 1944, while the ink was still drying on Audrey s divorce papers from her first marriage. The pair would go on to record several duets together (and produce a son, Hank Williams but Williams drinking ultimately caused irreparable rift in their marriage. When he described his first wife as a cheatin heart to country singer Billie Jean Jones, who would soon become his second wife, he was inspired to write the song. According to Jones, she and Williams were en route to her parents home in Louisiana to announce their engagement when Williams uttered the title phrase. Then he said, Hey that d make a good song,