Just follow the stairway to this lonely world of mine
You'll find me waitin' here in Apartment No 9

Not so very long ago you walked away from me
And after all the plans we made you decided to be free

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me
And the sun will nev

If I drove a truck and I were waitress
And I asked for coffee and you poured you some
Then you'd stop by on your way sometime later
And when we arm-wrestled you'd say that I'd won

Ai-ee my baby ride easy ride high in the saddle all day
Your loving is good and your cooking

Not long ago I didn't know the feel of lips on mine
And I was halfway happy then but that was before your time
Then you came along and I found heaven but now you leave me alone
I was better off before your time than I'd be after you're gone

I was better off before your time whe

Come and look out through the window that big ol' moon is shinin' down
Tell me now don't it remind you of a blanket on the ground
Remember back when love first found us we'd go slippin' out of town
And we'd love beneath the moonlight on a blanket on the ground

I'll get the blan

Go on with your new love have a good good time
Take her out and show her off fill her tall glass with wine
Live all you can I'll forgive you when the last thrill is gone
Just remember your sweet love is waiting at home
Bright lights had you blinded for a long long time
Your r

The younger kids are sleeping mama's working nights
You are heavy on my mind so I just thought I'd write
Money's hard to come by outside of that we're fine
Little brother talks about you almost all the time
Every night I say a little prayer that he'll keep watching over you
I

Don't look so sad I know it's over
But life goes on and this old world will keep on turning
Let's just be glad we had some time to spend together
There's no need to watch the bridges that were burning

Lay your head upon my pillow
Hold your warm and loving body close to mine

Oh the games people now every night and every day now
Never meanin' what they say now and never sayin' what they mean
While they wile away the hours in their ivory towers
Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine
Lotten da la da da da lotten da la a de

Well, I hail from Kentucky, and I'm headed down Georgia way
I got a score to settle and an awful lot o' things to say
A sassie lassie done stole my man
If that don't make me mad, nothin' can
When I get goin' there ain't no slowin'
Get behind me Satan and push

Get behind

Oh me and my baby are goin' steady
We ain't married but we're gettin' ready
To tie the knot and I'm gonna make him my own
Now that I've found him I'm gonna keep him
Finders keepers losers weepers
He's my baby he's goin' steady with me

Well I've been honky tonkin' round

I want to tell you all the story bout the Harper Valley widow wife
Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High
Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play
She said mama I got a note here from the Harper Valley PTA

The note said M

He's got more love in his little finger than you've got in all your heart
He's got more love in his little finger than you've got in your whole heart
And when you leave off in tenderness that's where his tenderness starts
Oh he wouldn't lie to me not to save his life that's something

I love you so much that I can't leave you
And even though my mind tells me I should
But then you make me think that you still love me
Then all my thoughts of leaving do no good
You've got me heart over mind worried all the time
Knowing you will always be the same
You keep

I've searched for words of sweet description too best described
The thrill it gives me just to have you by my side
But I can't find one single word that properly defines
How sweet it is just knowing that all your love is mine

Your love is heavenly sunshine heavenly sunshine

Hello darlin' nice to see you it's been a long time
You're just as fancy as you used to be
How's your new love are you happy hope you're doing fine
Just to know this means so much to me
What's that darlin' how'm I doing guess I'm doing all right
Except I can't sleep and I cry

Take the ribbons from my hair shake it loose and let it fall
Laying soft against your skin like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light
All I'm taking is your time help me make it through the night

I don't care who's right or wrong and

Well I don't wanna hear it no more fussin' and a fightin' baby hold me tight
Let's let bygones be bygones let's think about tomorrow or our future's bright
Well I know I was wrong but I was just a fool too blind to see
You were the only one for me
Ah but now I see the light and e

I'm a fool fool woman that's all alone
Just didn't know where I had a home
I left the good man to play with life
Bought myself some heartaches double price
I want my baby I need my baby
I gotta get back to my baby don't you understand
Cause I miss my loving from my home l

When you promised to be mine alone
Admit I'd love you from that moment on
I looked into your eyes and then I knew
That I can't get enough of you

I'd find the answer to my every dream
You have made a new life for me
I hunger for your touch the all day through
I can't

It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was a bailin' hay
At dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered at the backdoor y'all remember to wipe your feet
She said I got some news this mornin