recorded by Willie Nelson
written by Billy Wallace and Jimmy Rule
[Verse]
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You didn't know I wasn't free when you fell in love with me
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And with all your young heart you learned to care
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It brought you shame and disgrace the world has tumbled in your face
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Cause they call our love a back street affair
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They say you wrecked my home I'm a husband that's gone wrong
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They don't know the sorrow that we've had to bear
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For the one that I'm tied to was the first to be untrue
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Yes they call our love a back street affair
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We have each other now that's all that matters anyhow
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Oh the judgment of gossip's never fair
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We'll just be brave and strong then someday they'll see they're wrong
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Let them call our love a back street affair
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We'll be free for love someday when all the talk is dead away
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And the happiness we've hoped for then we'll share
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I'll climb a mountain high and then the world will hear me cry
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That our love is not a back street affair