Yankee Lady

Lyrics:

• I lived with the decent folks
• In the hills of old Vermont
• Where what you do all day
• Depends on what you want
• And I took up with a woman there
• Though I was still a kid
• And I smile like the sun
• To think of all the loving that we did
• She rose each morning and went off to work
• And she kept me with her pay
• I was making sweet love all night
• And playing this old guitar all day
• And I got apple cider and homemade bread
• That would make a man kneel down he would say grace
• And clean linens on our bed
• And a warm feet fire place
• Yankee lady so good to me
• Yankee lady just a memory
• Yankee lady so good to me
• Your memories gonna have to do for me
• An autumn walk on a old country road
• With a million flaming trees
• I was feeling a little uneasy
• Cause there was winter chill in the breeze
• And she said, "Oh Jesse, look over there
• I see birds are they are all southward bound
• Oh Jesse, I'm so afraid
• We are going to lose the love that we've found
• Yankee lady so good to me
• Yankee lady just a memory
• Yankee lady so good to me
• Your memories gonna have to do for me
• I don't know what called to me
• But I know that I plain had to go
• I left that little old Vermont town
• To live down in sunny Mexico
• And now when I can see myself
• As a stranger by my birth
• The Yankee lady's old memory
• To Remind me of my worth
• Yankee lady so good to me
• Yankee lady just a memory
• Yankee lady so good to me
• Your memories gonna have to do for me