False hearts have been my downfall Pretty women have been my craze I'm sure my false hearted lover Will drive me to my lonesome grave
They'll bite the hand that feeds them Spend the money that you save From your heart strings and silk garters They'll build a dog house on your grave
When my earthly stay is over Sink my dead body in the sea Just tell my false hearted lover That the whales will watch over me
Ragged clothes are dropping from my body Well, wolf howls around my door The man who won my darling girl Will feel the bite of my forty four
Corn whiskey has wrecked my body A false hearted lover is on my mind I've roamed the whole world over Pleasures here on earth I cannot find
If I meet my darling girl again I'll tell her about my trouble I give her these false hearted lover's blues Leave her stranded in the shallows
All men take this a warning It is both for young and old Don't try to buy a woman's love With the last dollar of your gold
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