Inside a suit coat pocket in the back of his closet today

She found a letter among the bills he forgot to pay

It was addressed to a woman

A name she'd never seen before

It started out, I'm sorry

But I won't be in Atlanta anymore



As she read the words he'd written

She found it hard to believe her eyes

At first she was angry then slowly she began to cry

'Cause somewhere down in Georgia

He'd taken off the wedding ring he wore

And it didn't help a whole lot knowin'

That he won't be in Atlanta anymore



He said I won't be in Atlanta anymore

And I'm sorry that I lied to you before

The truth is I got a wife and two children three and four

And I won't be in Atlanta anymore



At the bottom of the last page

He'll never know the P.S. that she wrote

'Cause she folded up the pages

And slipped them back into the envelope

Then she took the goodbye letter

And dropped it in the mailbox on the porch

She thought, the woman ought to know

That Atlanta's not a secret anymore



She wrote, he won't be in Atlanta anymore

And I don't know why he lied to you before

But, God knows, I still love him and I'm just makin' sure

That he won't be in Atlanta anymore

He wrote it and she mailed it

He won't be in Atlanta anymore