Lyrics:

There is a house in this old town
And that's where my true love lays around
And he takes other women right down on his knee
And he tells them a little tale he won't tell me

It's a-hard and it's hard, ain't it hard
To love one that never did love you?
It's a-hard, and it's hard, ain't it hard, great God
To love one that never will be true?

First time I seen my true Iove
He was walkin' by my door
Last time l seen his false hearted smile
He was dead on his coolin' board

Don't go to drinkin' and gamblin'
Don't go there your sorrows to drown
That hard-liquor place is a low-down disgrace
It's the meanest damn place in this town

Well, who's goin' to kiss your ruby lips
And who's goin' to hold you to their breast?
And who will talk your future over
While I'm ramblin' in the West?