When my first wife was near,
she left my heart in pain.
When my first wife left,
she left my heart in pain
Yeah, but since that day, since that day,
I've been traveling from door to door.
Don't you know,
don't you know, people?
Don't you just know
what I've been through
Oh, people,
you don't know, you don't know
You don't know, you don't know
just what I've been through
I had a good girl, good as she could be
I run around every night, every night
I left my wife by herself
She got so tired, so tired
She said, Johnny, I can't stand it no more
My fight wife, my fight wife quit me
She left my heart in pain
If I can get my wife back again, back again
I ain't gonna roam no more, oh no boy,
I ain't gonna roam the big
round world no more.
I had a good girl,
good as she could be,
I don't blame her for doing
the thing that she's doing.
She loved me, she loved me,
now it's hurting me, now it's hurting me,
now it's hurting me.
Have mercy, have mercy on me.