Here I go again love's standing at my door
I'm so afraid to take a chance cause I've been hurt before
It's not that I can't love you my life I'd like to share
But my heart's been broken so many times it's just afraid to care

Maybe time will ease the pain and someday I can love

Before you take another step there's something you should know
About the years ahead and how they'll be
You'll be living in a world where roses hardly ever grow
Cause all I have to offer you is me

There'll be no mansions waiting on the hill with crystal chandeliers
And ther

I just got home and found a note
That you left lying on my pillow case
You say you're leaving me
You found another man to take my place

And then you wish me luck
And say you hope that i'll get over you somehow
Honey i won't even know your name
An hour and a six-pack

I go all to pieces at the sight of of you
I tried to look the other way when you're around
But that takes more strenght than can be found
I just get weak as memories pass through
I go all to pieces at the sight of you
You've hurt me so many times that I've lost track
Yet

My hand is trembling as the key unlocks the door
My legs are shaking as i walk across the floor
And my voice squeaking as i call out i’m home
Do my eyes deceive me are is my baby gone

Baby’s gone she couldn’t stand to tell me face to face
And things just ain’t the way they

The man who preached the funeral said it really was a simple way to die
He laied down to rest one afternoon and never opened up his eyes
They hired me and Fred and Joe to dig the grave and carry up some chairs
It took us seven hours and I guess we must have drunk a case of beer
I

The life that i'm seeking
Is not in this bar where i'm sitting
But it sure ain't at home
Where the one that i'm married to is knitting

Happiness may not be here drinking beer
Feeling it go to my head
But it ain't back at home where she's putting in curlers
And rolle

Well you've been a bouncin' me just like a rubber ball
And I'm a gettin' tired of bouncin' that ain't all
I'm gonna see what I've been missin' I'm gonna start to timin' two
Yeah I'm a gonna put the big ole hurt on you

I'm gettin' ready to put the big ole hurt on you
Gonna g

I stood with mom and poppa as the bus pulled in that day
To take me from my childhood to a man
I believe it was the first time i saw either of them cry
As momma held on tight to daddy’s hand

Momma handed me a sandwich and some money she had saved
And whispered that she knew

Each night I leave the barroom when it's over
Not feeling any pain at closin' time
But tonight your mem'ry found me much too sober
I gouldn't drink enough to give you off my mind

Tonight the bottle let me down
And let your mem'ry come around
The one true friend I've tho

Well my daddy left home when I was three
And he didn't leave much to Ma and me
Just an old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
Now I don't blame him because he run and hid
But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left he went and called me Sue

Well he must h

He walked into the bar and parked his lanky frame upon a tall barstool
And with a long soft Southern drawl said
"I'll just have a glass of anything that's cool"
A barroom girl with hard and knowing eyes slowly looked him up and down
And she thought "I wonder how on earth

I remember when I was a lad times were hard and things were bad
But there's a silver lining behind every cloud
Just poor people that's all we were tryin' to make a living out of black land dirt
We'd get together in a family circle singing loud

(Daddy sang bass mama sang tenor)<

Here i am late again for the last time
And like i promised i just told her goodbye
Please believe me for this time it's really over
And darling you know i wouldn't lie

Didn't i come and tell you about her
How temptation lured she and i
Now i know it was only fascination

Give me a ho if you've got your funky bus fare? ho

There's a double dutch bus comin' down the street
Movin pretty fast
So kinda shuffle your feet
Get on the bus and pay your fare
And tell the driver that you're
Goin' to a double dutch affair
Fe fi fo fum
Well i'

I'm drinking champagne feeling no pain till early morning
Dining and dancing with every pretty girl i can find
Having a fling with a pretty young thing till early morning
Knowing tomorrow i'll wake up with you on my mind

Guilty conscience i guess though i must confess
I nev

You've heard me sigh you've seen me cry
You've helped to brush my tears away
When things go wrong you're my cover
Every night you make my day

Your loving touch can do so much
Your smile helps me find my way
Straight to the arms that i live for
Every night you make m

I nearly made it all the way to work this morning
Then i changed my mind
There's an empty feeling in my soul
That's crying for a lifetime of marking time

I don’t know if it's too late to find success
Or if my life can take the change
But i'm not getting any younger

I really don't know what happened
But lately our love has grown tired
Your kisses once so warm and tender
Here lately leave so much to a man desire

I really don't mean to hurt you
I don't know why things happen they just so
But five minutes in the arms of the right woma

I got up this morning and while I was having my coffee
My woman came in and sat down by my side
With tears in her eyes she said I have a confession to make
And I said woman speak what's on your mind
She said I found somebody new to take you're place
I said don't feel so all a