I would have walked a plank for you, but I'm not gonna do it now

Could'a borne an army of your children, too, but I'm not gonna do it now

At night you'd say I was your risin' sun, but when the real one would come up, you'd be gone,

I would have walked a plank for you, but I'm not gonna do it now

I've been known to cry for you, but I'm not gonna do it now,

And it don't matter if you don't want to - O! You'd better leave right now!

You said I was your only love, the kind I didn't know you had double of,

I would've walked a plank for you, but I'm not gonna do it now, no,

I'm never gonna do it now.

In the past I'd have begged you to stay, but I'm not gonna do it now

And because the end must come someday, O! It may as well be now!

Don't wanna fight for love that never shows, and, besides,

Don't you have somewhere else to go?

I could've spent my life on you, but I'm not gonna do it now, no!

I'm never gonna do it now. No, I'm not gonna do that now.