Do not forsake me, oh, my darling On this our wedding day Do not forsake me, oh, my darling Wait, wait along I do not know what fate awaits me I only
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill He sounds too blue to fly The midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry I've never seen a night so long
You're back in town again spreadin' talk around That I'm still in love with you though you let me down I hate to admit it but I guess the talk is true
If it pleases you to break my heart if it pleases you let the heartache start I love you so much I gladly go through a hundred broken hearts if it pleases
[ duet with Ray Price ] They call me a fool and say it won't last That you'll break my heart like the ones in your past They're calling you wild you'll
I've walked a million miles across this floor and a million times I opened this door But all there ever is the blues hmm it's lonesome without you I know
It's a long way down from riches to rags but if you can wear a cotton dress with pride Then come on down from riches to rags if a poor man's love can
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're gonna have big
It hurts too much to laugh and I'm too big to cry Wait and see another hope of love light in your eyes The day he took your love from me my heart inside
I trail this lonesome man I don't believe while we were boys out of any race we ran For you see his face resembles mine we talk somewhat the same And though we walk
In every other song that I've heard lately some fellow get shot And his baby and his best friend both died with him as likely as nut In half of the other
I've thought I needed things that I could by with gold I scorn the treasure of her love my arms could hold A love that made me richer than a king yes
In old Mexico I stand on the square in Matamoros Round a Plazza the couples were walking to music so sweet I've found my love not too long ago in Matamoros
Make the world go away And get it off of my shoulders Say the things you used to say And make the world go away Do you remember when you loved me Before
The next voice you hear will be your conscience As you lie awake and try so hard to sleep And your unfaithful heart will have to listen To those shabby
Rain drippin' off the brim of my hat sure is cold today Here I am walkin' down 66 wish she hadn't done me that way Sleepin' under a table in a roadside
Why must I love a heartless one who'll never know the harm she's done Though love is blind I should have known just call me lonesome from now on I climb
I got you on my mind again I tried to keep a smile on my face and make believe another never took my place But just when I think I forgotten that's when