You finally said something good when you said goodbye So don't wait around to see if I'm a gonna cry Instead of tears streaming down my face you'll find
You're the hand that waved goodbye you're the tears that fill my eyes You're the love I had that went wrong You're the lump that fills my throat and when
See the tree how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been too long it wasn't big I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it was
The worst that I've ever been hurt in my life The first time I ever have wanted to die Was the night when you told me You loved someone else And you asked
That look of love is no longer in your eyes We've lost the magic when we touch For me you once said that you'd live or die But now sweetheart the goodnight
(While you're cheating on me I'm praying for you) For I still believe someday you'll be true You'll reap what you sow I know those words are so true For
I'm standing by the street lights of the city wondering which way I should go You're to my right she's to my left and I'm like a smoke ring that blows
Well I was out a drinking with a couple of friends of mine When the bartender handed me the telephone and said there's your wife on the line Well I told
Watch that man get up and go to work every day And watch that woman send their little girl outside to play And watch and you might see the milkman drive
I could sit here in my lonely room forever count the hours that slowly tick away I could do all this and worry over things that might have been But after
I just kissed the one I love for the last time never have her soft lips then so sweet She's gone away and won't be back forever Think I'll go somewhere
It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife But I've been a working man dang near all of my life I'll keep on workin' long as my two hands
You say you need me to give your heart a song to sing That the only joys you've known with him are the joys your children bring You say yours are old
Everyone has heard me say I don't miss her much today Cause there's so much more to do than sit and cry I said many times before I don't love her anymore
Some friends just told me that they saw you and that you asked about me Howdy why this sudden interest for a long long time now you've been free You caused
Just outside these prison bars The hanging tree is waitin' At sunrise I'll meet darkness And death will say hello Darling, touch your lips to mine And
Where have you gone my little boy little boy where have you gone my sonny my own Turn around you're two turn around then you're four Turn around you're
We're still together yet so far apart Because of little Jimmy and his baby sister Sue You pretend you'll you love me and I'll still stay with you But