All alone here I stand
   Heart in hell chin in hand
   Thinkin' what will I do without you
   Did I know did I see
   Did I drive her away from me
   Did I cause her to be so untrue
  
   The way she done me it ain't fair
   I think I'm losin' all my hair
   I pay the price for the life that I choose
   It's a red letter day for the blues
  
   You were young you were wild
   You were nothin' but a child
   You were sweet as a honeysuckle tree
   Before I saw before I knowed
   You took a young man and turned him old
   Then we rode down a road of misery
  
   The way she done me it ain't fair
   I think I'm losin' all my hair
   I pay the price for the life that I choose
   It's a red letter day for the blues
  
   It's a red letter day, it's a red letter day
   It's a red letter day for the blues