Lyrics:

Twenty seven days Ive been out on the road,
Im a nervous wreck, I gotta get back home.
Theres a young bride waiting for me all alone
Lord, how she misses me.

I can see her sittin in the kitchen chair
In a cotton dress with her long black hair.
But a woman aint pretty if a man aint there,
That I cant afford to be.

Its a shame, its a shame
She wont be the one to blame
Oh the hurtinest thing in the whole wide world
Is the heart of a lonely girl.

Like a red-tail fox to a blue tick hound,
Shes the hottest thing for miles around.
All them other boys in our hometown,
Got tricks hid up their sleeves.

Now it aint her that I dont trust,
Shes pretty and pure as diamond dust.
But lonesome is this lonesome girl
She cant help for what she needs.

Its a shame, its a shame
She wont be the one to blame
Oh the hurtinest thing in the whole wide world
Is the heart of a lonely girl.

The heart of a lonely girl,
The heart of a lonely girl.
Its the hurtinest thing in the whole wide world
The heart of a lonely girl.

Daddy was a rambler just like me,
I guess the apple dont fall too far from the tree.
When I ask why momma had to go that day,
Well he dont know and she wont say.

Its a shame, its a shame
She wont be the one to blame
Oh the hurtinest thing in the whole wide world
Is the heart of a lonely girl.

Yeah, its a shame, its a shame
She wont be the one to blame
Yeah the hurtinest thing in the whole wide world
Is the heart of a lonely girl.
Yeah the hurtinest thing in the whole wide world
Is the heart of a lonely girl.