This is not my first time at a party. And I know when a woman's comin' on. But I don't know how long I can resist her. So if she's your woman please take her home.
I finally found the words to say. How long did I intend to stay. I know you've wondered now and then. How close our love is to the end. . I think it's only fair to let you know.
They say you got to pay to play to win. Okay, what you say, you're not like them. Oh, hey, wait, oh, let me get this straight. I just can't seem to concentrate.
Cry away the dark night fade to day. the mornings come my way. I'm an ordinary man. . Slick words slipping through your mouth. and i try to hear you out.
We're man and wife on paper but the things just ain't the same you. Lovers now are strangers how we've changed. It's the end of our forever and we just can't stay together.
(No deal, no deal). Now the cards are all stacked against me. For reasons I don't understand. And since he's taken my place at your table. Then he'll have to play out my hand.
(I'll never forget the night that Lefty Frizzell. Call me at home back in December of 1974. He sang me a song on the phone that he and D. Shafer written.
Well I've just left my home friends where I couldn't sleep. For missin' a man that I couldn't keep. She just walked out and left me for somebody else.
Well if the wife and I are fussin' brother that's our right. Cause me and that sweet woman's got a licence to fight. Why don't you mind your own business mind your own business.
If you see your man in clothes that's old and ragged. And he walks from bar to bar in worn out shoes. If people point and whisper God have mercy. Would you deny the man that you once knew.
(Love is what life's all about). . I've climbed the mountain and looked down on valleys below. I've been everywhere and I've tried everything. So I think that I ought to know.
She came, she came. cool blues and a pocketful of pouring rain. She came, she came. . She comes, she comes. into the room like the morning sun just coming on.
She was a lady from the country of eleven hundred springs. She could drink more beer than I could buy. She was a lady from the country of eleven hundred springs.
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh. Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou. My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh. Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou.
It's a cheating situation, a stealing invitation. To take what's not really ours, to make it through the midnight hours. It's a cheating situation, just a cheap imitation.
I drove through the park and I searched all the bars. Where I made out with love too many times. . It was always so easy to find and unhappy woman. Till I started looking for mine.
She'd like to give me things that you've stopped giving. She sees in me the things you used to see. And she'd like to feel these arms that you've left defeat.
I'm not here just drinking someone's mem'ry away. But I wish I had someone I could leave so I could stay. I'm not the kind who runs around and cheats on his wife.
Intro:. Oh you wanted love. Oh you wanted love. Oh you wanted love. Oh you wanted love. . Verse 1:. I kept you warm, fires burning out. Embers for the storm, but they won't last forever.