Don't sweetheart me if you don't mean it Don't talk sweet words if they're not true Don't tear my heart like it was paper Because my heart loves only
When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock
Empty arms that long for you And they're waiting just for you And these arms will stay this way Till you return to them someday Each lonely night I go
By your side satisfied through and through 'Cause I was born to be with you Wonderously love can see So I knew that I was born to be with you Do I find
You sit there a crying cry in your beer You say you got troubles my friend listen here Don't tell me your troubles got enough of my own Be thankful you
The first step down is the longest on your way down the ladder of disgrace Take the cap from the top of the bottle Just one drink then put it down that
Cry cry darling, that's what I do If you'd leave me with the blues Cry cry darling, that's what I do If it's you that I should lose For me there'd be
Fool me one more time and say you love me More than once you've promised you'd be true More than many times I've let you lie to me again Fool me one more
Drifting apart, drifting apart Seems like we're drifting, drifting in apart Well, I can see your love for me is fadin' and slowly dyin' And I can seem
Wonderful things of folks are said when they have passed away Roses adorn the narrow bed over the sleeping clay Give me the roses while I live trying
In a tavern on the corner you'll find me every night Tryin' to forget her love that didn't turn out right My eyes just stare at nothing here I sit a broken
Oh goody goody gumdrop go do a flip flop tear another suckery blues Goody goody gumdrop I think I heard a teardrop how do you like good news I thank
My sweetheart has gone and I'm so lonely She said that she and I were through So I started out drinking for past time Drivin' nails in my coffin over
Graveyard shift works all night long it works from sunset till early dawn The work is hard but your back is strong graveyard shift works all night long
At least a thousand times I've tried leavin' But each time I'd come back in a day or two So I've made myself a promise I'll be keepin' I'm givin' up,
It's true, you have me twisted Round your finger It seems that's where I belong You know how to hold me To thrill me and control me Just enough to keep
Cigareets and whuskey and wild wild women They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane Cigareets and whuskey and wild wild women They'll drive you
[ Loretta Lynn ] I don't know your name I wouldn't know your face But you're right with the one I love out there someplace You have an invitation be free