Back Street Affair

You didn't know I wasn't free

When you fell in love with me

And with all your young heart you learned to care

It brought you shame and disgrace

The world has tumbled in your face

For they call our love a back street affair

They say you wrecked my home

That I'm a husband that's gone wrong

They don't know the sorrow that we have to bear

For the one that I'm tied to

Was the first to prove untrue

Yet they call our love a back street affair

We have each other now

That's all that matters anyhow

For the judgement of gossip's never fair

We'll just be brave and strong

And someday they'll be wrong

Let 'em call our love a back street affair

When the mist rolls away

We'll be free to love someday

And know happiness that God meant us to share

I'll climb a mountain, dear

Shout so the world can hear

That our love is not a back street affair