Don't Come Home

He was raised in a holler

Where he worked for a dollar

That was awfully hard to come by

Dust and feed

On his blue jeans

Is all he gains on that mountain side

Mixin meal in an

Old feed mill

Is what he was born into

Slaving away

With very little pay

And broken back is what he's grown kin to

He had a dark haired girl

His green eyed world

That would soon tear his apart

He went into town

And he soon found out

She didn't only have his heart

She was sharin it

With a few other men

And she left him in the dark

She thought she was hid

But he knew what she did

He never was too far

He said I've worked my life away

Just so you could stay home

But you loved runnin around town

With every man I knowed

And I'd lift the heavy load

And you'd lay out all night

You loved runnin them roads

But tonight will be the last time

She comes home in the mornin

When the suns done snoring

And it starts to rise

Says I need to be real

And tell her how I feel

And how I'm fed up with her lies

And if she don't change

It sure will be a shame

If I kept on letting this slide

But I'm thinkin maybe

I oughtta tell my baby

Tonight will be her last ride

Cause you take all the money I make

And you spend it where you roam

I can't count all the lonesome nights

When I don't know where you go

Now I'm drinkin my self away

Honey I might do something wrong

Best advice I could give tonight

Is honey don't come home

They got me locked in the pen

For what I did

For what happend to her

But I ain't gotta worry about her runnin around

Now this I know for sure