Key: G
Introduction:
G C G
The barroom crowd is thinning out it must be getting late
D7
But if I'm free tomorrow night I'll meet you here by eight
G C G
It's hard to kiss two lips goodbye that's sweeter than the wine
C G D7 G
The hardest part of all is going home to do my time
C G
From the minute I walk through the door I know how it will be
C G D7
I'll sit across the room and wish she'd stop starring at me
G C G
We both tried but it's no good our love's dead on the vine
C G D7 G
Yet I must pay for loving you by going home to do my time
C G
I've never found the happiness at home I find with you
D7
And if she were all that's holding me I'd make my dreams come true
G C G
But you know how much I love those little kids of mine
C G D7 G
They're all I've got to keep me going home to do my time
C G
From the minute I walk through the door I know how it will be
C G D7
I'll sit across the room and wish she'd stop starring at me
G C G
We both tried but it's no good our love's dead on the vine
C G D7 G
Yet I must pay for loving you by going home to do my time