Small Town Tongues
Jerry Harper, that's the name
Of a man who liked my woman like he liked his cocaine
Deep down inside you know I had a feeling
If I turned my back she'd be running to him
We live in a small town and word it travels
Soon I heard she'd been seeing him behind my back
But, I didn't worry cause what goes around
Always comes back around to bite you in the ass
Yeah, in a small town everybody
Knows your sister and your brother
And it ain't wise to do something
You wouldn't do in front of your mother
Like a dog's tail folk's tongues are wagging
Dragging your name all around
That's the way it goes when you live in a small town
I bit my tongue about all his drugging and cheating
And all the trouble he was mixed up in
And not before long all his fast living
Finally caught up to him in the end
One night at the bar I saw him drinking and crying
Over the fool that he'd been
You can only do wrong for so long
In a small town like we re living in.