Billy Joe Tucker – Death Is My Lover

USA ~ 1969

Label: Banshee (BR-1002)
Come A Hick-To-Ma-Hike / Death Is My Lover

Lyrics:
Death is my lover
My mistress called hate
Violence and loneliness,
Is my companions, my fate
Bitterness is my brother,
And famine was my wife

Hell is my home
Nightmares my life
I said I’m so blue
I was was in prison
A ball and chain around my feet
The love of a woman,
I expected my defeat

I’m so lonely, but now I understand
To love just one woman
You’ve got to be a big man
And Lord I’m so blue

Fear is my sister
My fate is unknown
My soul dwells in emptiness,
Now I remain alone
Let no man read the lines I write
Nor see the tears I shed
Let me remain to all,
The forgotten and dead
I’m so blue