Sail away sweet sister / Sail across the sea / Maybe you'll find somebody / That will love you half as much as me / My heart is always with you / No matter what you do / So sail away sweet sister / Cause I'll always be in love with you

But let her be somebody else's queen / I don't want to know about you / 'Cause too many others know what I mean / And that's why I got to live without you

I'm in love with a girl / Been talkin' about / I'm in love with a girl / That I can't live without / I'm in love but it feels like / I'm livin' it out / I'm in love but I think I picked a bad time / To be in love.

Man's got his woman to take his seed / He's got the power - oh / She's got the need / She spends her life through pleasing up her man / She feeds him dinner or anything she can / She cries alone at night too often / He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all

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Only women bleed / Only women bleed / Only women bleed

Man makes your hair gray / He's your life's mistake / All you're really lookin' for is an even break / He lies right at you / You know you hate this game / He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain / She cries alone at night too often / He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all

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Black eyes all of the time / Don't spend a dime / Clean up this grime / And you there down on your knees begging me please come / Watch me bleed.

Repeat Chorus twice

Tell everybody that I'm sorry, truly sorry / For all the wrong I' ve done / I' ve never meant to hurt nobody, no no / Lord, I never wanna do no wrong

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Cause I have lied and I have begged and I have cheated / And I know my ship it won't be coming in / And as I lay me down to take my rest / I can see that it's just dust in the wind

Take on my hand and hold it tighter ever tighter / You must believe that I love you still / But my strength it grows weaker and weaker / And my body has lost its will

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Oh my Lord, I have lost once again / And I there's no one to help me find my way home / Lord I never wanna hurt nobody / Oh no, and I, Lord, I never wanna do no wrong.