Richard Bryant

I'd need a thousand reasons

To pack my trunk and leave this town behind

And since that woman put a man between us

I'm up to reason number nine hundred and ninety-nine

I know this town from way back

My friends are here. I know their children's names

But circumstance is piling high around me

That gives me cause to think I'm in a losing game

Reasons one through twenty tell me that work here is scarce

Twenty-one through thirty deal with bad business affairs

Thirty-one through nine hundred and ninety-nine

Concern the above mentioned woman and a former friend of mine

One more reason at the most

Just one more reason and I'm ghost

One more reason and I'm gone

She was my heart's desire

My blood would know whenever she came near

But I am a man of suspicious nature

They sent me a card from Kansas that served to confirm all my worst fears

Somebody drop their hat and I'll be on my way

Somebody look at me funny and I will not stay

The heart has gone out of this town of mine

My friends are sympathetic but I'm feeling much maligned

One more reason at the most

Just one more reason and I'm ghost

One more reason and I'm gone