Don't blame me Hear my story and listen well; Truth is in all that I tell It could never have been me I did not shoot no deputy Mr Grant, the deputy, Friend to my whole family He always tell me when John Brown Was getting ready to come around

And now I'm losing you But this is all I ever was And this is all you came across those years ago Now you go too far Don't tell me that I've changed because that's not the truth You were the only one And in time As one reminds the other of past A life

Tell em anything you want to, Just don't tell em all the truth, Yeah don't tell em all the truth, Just don't tell em I've gone crazy, That I'm still strung out over you, Tell em all I'm on vacation, Say I went to visit friends, That you ain't heard or

Momma I'm depending on you, to tell me the truth Papa was a rolling stone, Where ever he laid his hat was his home And when he died, all he left us was alone It was the third of September That day I'll always remember, yes I will 'Cause that was the day,

How was I to know that this was always only just a little game to you? All the time I felt you gave your heart I thought that I would do the same for you, Tell the truth I think I should have seen it coming from a mile away, When the words you say are,