(Billy Wallace - Jimmy Rule)

You didn't know I wasn't free when you fell in love with me

And with all your young heart you learned to care

It brought you shame and disgrace the world has tumbled in your place

For they call our love a back street affair

They say you wrecked my home I'm a husband that's gone wrong

They don't know the sorrow that we have to bear

For the one that I'm tied to was the first to prove untrue

Yet they call our love a back street affair

[ fiddle ]

Sweetheart I always knew when I fell in love with you

The heartaches that we would have to bear

I knew a call gets around and that all over town

They would call our love a back street affair

They say I wrecked your life and brought sorrow to your wife

That I was just a girl who didn't seem to care

But if they only knew how she slips around on you

They wouldn't call our love a back street affair

When the mist rolls away we'll be free to love some day

And find happiness that we were made to share

We'll climb a mountain high and the world will hear us cry

That our love is not a back street affair