The Hardest Part

Paid my respects to the company store

I ain't got no money, don't want no more

Paid my respects to the company boys

They just moved along

I worked hard for every little bit I got

I got lucky once on some advice

Met a dark-haired girl at the Mississippi moon

Must have left by mistake one night

In a hurry, Lord

And that ain't the hardest part

The hardest part is loving somebody that cares for you

So much

Promises don't pay cash at the bank

If they did, I'm betting you would

You couldn't pay me for the time that it took to write a check

Or buy a baby doll for my girl

I worked hard for every little bit I got

The things I got are gonna stay

It's been flooding so hard on this company mine

That you know it's gonna flood someday

You're gonna miss someone

And that ain't the hardest part

The hardest part is loving somebody that cares for you

And that ain't the hardest part

The hardest part is working and I've worked enough

I can stretch that penny like a silver line

Rolling through the pages of my life

Underneath the name where it's underlined

I've been turned around, I've been mystified

By true love

And that ain't the hardest part

Talking 'bout a true love

That ain't the hardest part

And that ain't the hardest part