There’s an empty pack of cigarettes on the table by my bed

I know I need to quit but I’ll just go and buy another pack instead

I might as well be dead

Can’t afford to eat today, Hell, I could lose a couple pounds

I’m not hungry anyhow and there’s no way I could eat right now cause I ain’t coming down

It ain’t easy finding Jesus when the Devil is always coming round

With my heart on my sleeve and a monkey on my back

Devil on my shoulder he don’t cut me no slack

Jesus on the other side, he don’t always win

But every day I’m breathing lord Is another day I sin

These days I’m leaning towards him a little more

See I told the devil I was on a different level and I just won’t stoop down to his

And this is what he did

He said it’s all in good fun, it might as well had been loaded gun and didn’t cost me a dime

It’s so hard to find Jesus when the devil wants to keep you on his side

With my heart on my sleeve and a monkey on my back

The Devil on my shoulder he don’t cut me no slack

Jesus on the other side, he don’t always win

But every day I’m breathing lord Is another day I sin

These days I’m leaning towards him a little more

Somewhere in the dark there’s a coyote crying

A young man chose love over freedom, he ain’t coming back alive

Some say Billy loved the way her black hair shined, brighter than a future across the border line.

He’d just be another lonely gringo

Without someone to run him down

Well then a gamblin friend that he called Big Casino

Pinned a star on his chest, there’s a new sheriff in town

He gave him the chance but this romance just wouldn’t go to grave

Like he did each and every time they let him slip away

Couldn’t go back to Lincoln County couldn’t go out West.

But he’d go straight to hell and back upon Paulita’s request.

This fatal fact was known by sheriff Pat

For he’d had the tiger by the tail before

The so called law had just about taken all the poor Kids’ friends

What else is a man supposed to do

Somewhere in the dark there’s a coyote crying

A young man chose love over freedom, he ain’t coming back alive

Billy said "Goodnight Loving Darlin',

I'm using the light of the moon

Tried my damnedest to stay the trail

but I know they'll be waiting in your room.

I hear it's nice down in Texas

and now for my next trick

they'll lay somebody in my tomb.

Goodnight Loving Darlin'

I love only you

Goodnight Loving Darlin'

I love only you.