Well I hear that your new romance has faded just the way ours did sometime ago

Why I've lost count of all the times I've waited
For you to tell me that you've missed me so

Yes come on home and sing the blues to daddy

Things ain't workin' out the way you planned

Yes come on home and sing the blues to daddy tell it all to one who understands

Back about eighteen hundred and some a Louisiana couple had a red headed son

No name soothe him Jim Jack or Joe they just called him Billy Bayou

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go you're walkin' on quick sand and walk slow
Billy Billy Bayou watch what you say a pretty girl'll get you one of these days

[ guitar ]

Stranger livin' in my house I'm writing this letter to you

There's a few odds and ends in my house that I neglected to do

Take care of the little things I'm depending on you
And love my sweet baby I neglected her too

The garden I planted needs water the house needs paintin' outside

The yard could stand a little mowin' each time that I pass by

He'll buy you lots of pretty things fancy clothes and fancy rings

But he will never love you never more than I
Your pillard home all dressed in white will be cold on the summer's night

Cause he will never love you never more than I

Wealth and possession I admit I don't have very much of

I was born and raised a poor boy and all we had was love

It wasn't very long ago we had a love few people know

And everything was going oh so fine

I've trusted you you've trusted me the way that it's supposed to be
But the love slipped from us somewhere down the line

We had all of the good things going baby you know we did they were so kind

Enjoying the taste of the good life we all look for but few can't find

[ ac.guitar ]

Let me live again let me live again

[ steel ]

A little taste of heaven that I had before
Was just enough to keep me coming back for more

After loving you losing you was more than I could stand

Now I'm the ghost of what was once a man

Let me live again let me live again reach into my heart and light the light of love again

Let me see the sun let this darkness end