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