when she wakes up this morning and turns to kiss me
she’ll find i let her sleep cause we talked so late last night
she’ll know i kissed her face gently till my returning
and when she finds the rose on my pillow i know she’ll smile

her amazing love unending
is so much more than i am worthy of
if the rose could speak my feelings
she’d know i cherrished her amazing love
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if i call her a little late she forgives me
her voice does not betray she’s spent another day alone
she softly thanks me for the rose and says i miss you
and then i can feel her smiling on the phone
her amazing love…

now amos moses was a cajun he lived by himself in the swamp
he haunted alligators for a livin’ he just knock ‘em in the head with a stump
the louisiana law’s gonna get ya amos
it ain’t legal huntin’ alligators down in the swamp boy
now everybody blames his old man for makin’ him mean as a snake
when amos moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait

tie a rope around his waist throw him in the swamp
alligator bait in the louisiana bayou

about forty five minutes southeast of tippidoe louisiana
live a man called doc millsap and his pretty wife hannah
well they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groc’ries
named him after the man of the cloth called him amos moses

now folks around south louisiana said amos was a hell of a man
he could trap the biggest the meanest alligator and just use only one hand
that’s all he got left cause the alligator bit him
left arm gone clean up to the elbow
well the sheriff got wind that amos was in the swamp trappin’ alligator skins
so he snook in the swamp gonna get the boy but he never come out again

well i wonder where the louisiana sheriff went to
well you can sure get lost in the louisiana bayou
about forty five minutes…
about forty five minutes…

i’ve tried to be strong i’ve tried to leave town
this conscience of mine is getting me down
i needed a love someone sweet and kind
but another man’s woman was all i could find

another man’s woman how low can i get
it’s too soon to answer for i’m falling yet
there’s so many others who need love like mine
but another man’s woman was all i could find
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there’s so many others…

tell me darling have i been away too long
i was wrong to leave but now i’m coming home
have you missed me i kind of hope you would
and jokingly i ask are you being good

i’m being good as lonely girl can be
and there’s no other place on earth i’d rather be
to lie here beside him learns me how sweet love can be
i’m being good as lonely girl can be

it was just too much for me i should have known
you were just too much a woman to leavin’ on
i just realized i love you much too late
and lord it’s killing me to hear you say

i’m being good as lonely girl can be
(tell me darling have i been away too long)
and there’s no other place on earth i’d rather be
(i know i was wrong to leave but now all i wanna do is come back home)
to lie here beside him learns me how sweet love can be
(you’re just too much to me i know i should have known)
i’m being good as lonely girl can be
(you were just too much woman for me to leave alone)

hello (hello loretta) darlin’ i knew it was you
(loretta there’s something i just got to tell you)
oh please tell me what to do
(i don’t really know how to say this but i want to tell you that i)
you gave me the will to go on as soon as i picked up the phone
(no no you don’t understand loretta i’m trying to tell you that i)
the talk is around that we’re through (yeah i know i’ve heard it too)
oh darling tell me what to do
(but that’s just it that’s what i’m trying to tell you i wanna tell you that)
i knew you’d tell me they were wrong as soon as i picked up the phone
(oh but it’s true they’re not wrong)

oh no (i’m sorry loretta) oh no i can’t believe that it’s true
(i’m sorry loretta i’m really really sorry)
oh no oh no i can’t believe that we’re through
(i know you know that i never thought it would come to this)
you tell me it’s over and done
(i really thought that i loved you and you know that)
you say that you’ve had all your fun
(you’ve just got to believe me that i never meant to hurt you)
but i can’t believe you’ll be gone
(this is the hardest thing that i’ve ever had to do and it hurts me too)
as soon as i hang up the phone (yeah i’ll be gone)
as soon as i hang up the phone (goodbye loretta)