Yes, I thought that you were true when I fell in love with you
For you told me you always would play square
Then I learned you had a home, that your wife had not gone wrong
And our love was just a backstreet affair
Was too late to say no when I found you’d fooled me so For as time passed on I’d learned too much to care
Though I knew I must atone, but my will was not my own
I’m paying for that backstreet affair
You didn’t count the cost, you gambled and I lost
Now I must pay with hours of deep despair
You still can live your life with a true, forgiving wife
But I can’t live down our backstreet affair
The love I gave so free is left to torture me Though I know it’s hopeless and it isn’t fair
But, still I must go on while the gossips spread are wrong
I’m paying for that backstreet affair
This lady was Queen of Country Music and the First Lady of Country music for about 25 years. This was one of her very best songs. She was pure country gold in just about everything she recorded. A class act in everyway
We were lucky & got to her about 30~35 years ago in a small town Cliff, N.M., about 30 miles out of Silver City, N.M. She really put on a good show, we still have album we bought that night, never been out of the folder. She & Hank Williams are 2 of my favorites.