The floorboards creak underfoot,
a shotgun shoves into his back.
He says, “I'd know that barrel
anywhere;
I wouldn't blame you if you
pulled that trigger back.”
Capo II
Am DmAm / Am GAm :||
She said, “I knew it was you
right away;
I could tell by that crooked, old
gait.
When you left I was mad as hell;
you were gone before I was even
awake.
“You're lucky I've had time to
cool,
or I'd have already laid you in
your grave;
and you know you can't be
creeping in this way—
—it's just too big of a risk to
take.”
Another
last farewell,
one
more sad goodbye,
caught
under the spell
of
a love that just won't die.
F Am / G Am :||
In her day, Lightnin' Lizzie
turned many a young man's head.
She spun them around, and she was
gone;
and they were left alone in bed.
She never let any of them in,
so they could never cause her any
pain.
Until she met up with Fast
Freddie,
and he beat her at her own game.
When Freddie left, Lizzie was
lost;
that's how she ended up with Big
Bill.
If she couldn't have the only one
she loved,
she'd settle for the house on the
hill.
But Freddie just couldn't seem to
stay away;
he'd grow weary just rambling
around.
He'd get the need to see Lizzie's
face,
and he would saunter back in to
town.
He knew that his life was on the
line—
—he knew Big Bill was the
jealous sort,
but he still had the nerve like a
thief in the night
to sneak on in through Lizzie's
back door.
Repeat chorus
One dark night it happened
like they always knew that it
would.
Lying in bed, she heard the
gunshot;
Lizzie understood.
A
final last farewell,
the
saddest goodbye,
and
Lizzie fears her tears
will
never dry.