No New Friends Please

(Tom T. Hall)



I'd like to be your friend

But think of all the friends I've bent

I never thought there'd come a day

I never thought I'd hear me say

I'd disappoint you in the end

No new friends please, no new friends for me.



Memories of old acquaintance

Keep on coming back

Some I met at the garden parties

Some lives by a railroad track.



I'd like to be your friend

But think of all the friends I've bent

I never thought there'd come a day

I never thought I'd hear me say

I'd disappoint you in the end

No new friends please, no new friends for me.



What we are is self appointed

There's nothing we can do

We'd lose touch with one another

And that ain't fair to me or you.



I'd like to be your friend

But think of all the friends I've bent

I never thought there'd come a day

I never thought I'd hear me say

I'd disappoint you in the end

No new friends please, no new friends for me...