I lose my blues, honey, when I'm with you No one else can do, you're in my heart to stay And when I'm gone and I'm all alone I'll be singing this song
I've been throwing horseshoes Over my left shoulder It seems like all my life Been searching for that four-leafed clover Yet you run with me Chasing
Goodbye, dear old mama, goodbye poor old dad Goodbye, all my brothers and my dear little sister I've been condemned for the rest of my life To the bars
I got my angel on my mind, that's why I'm walkin' There's such an ache in this old heart, well, I ain't talkin' The hand that held mine tight just waved
Return to me Oh, my dear, I'm so lonely Hurry back, hurry back Oh, my love, hurry back, I'm yours Return to me For my heart wants you only Hurry home
I've been in this room before I can remember the funny shaped crack Up on the ceiling just north Of the light bulb usurped on my head Time to go back
Why baby, why baby, why baby, why? Well, tell me, why baby, why baby, why baby why? Tell me why baby, why baby, why baby, why You make me cry baby, cry
"O bury me not on the lone prairie" These words came low and mournfully From the pallid lips of the youth who lay On his dying bed at the end of the day
Freight train, freight train, run so fast Freight train, freight train, run so fast Please don't tell what train I'm on They won't know what route I'm
Well, here I sit high, gettin' ideas Ain't nothin' but a fool would live like this Out all night and runnin' wild Woman's sittin' home with a month old