Lyrics:

I once had a sweetheart the fairest of maidens

She outshined all others that I'd known by far

I had me a friend named Big Harlan Taylor Harlan had a rubber tied new shiny car
All the ways of the world and the wants of a woman

If I figured them all up it could take many years

[ ac.guitar ]

By the wants of a woman she fell for Big Harlan

I tried but in vain for to take my own life

Suddenly I had lost all my will to keep living

She'd lost her desire to become my young wife

All the ways of the world...

[ ac.guitar ]

Well I wanted revenge and we laid for Big Harlan

Then I started wondering what good would it do

If a rubber tied new shiny car's her ambition

And I just let her hat and Big Harlan too

All the ways of the world...

If I figured them all up it could take many years