Back Street Affair

(Written by Billy Wallace)



You didn't know I wasn't free

When you fell in love with me

And with all your young heart, you learned to care

It brought you shame and disgrace

The world has tumbled in your face

Because they call our love a back street affair.



They say you wrecked my home

I'm a husband that's gone wrong

They don't know the sorrow that we've had to bear

For the one that I'm tied to

Was the first to be untrue

And yet they call our love a back street affair.



We have each other now

That's all that matters anyhow

For the judgement of gossip's never fair

We'll just be brave and strong

Then some day they'll see they're wrong

So let 'em call our love a back street affair.



We'll be free to love someday

When all the talk has died away

And the happiness we hoped for then we'll share

I'll climb a mountain high

And then the world can hear me cry

That our love's not a back street affair...