My name was Stranger on the night that we met And then it was Sweetheart and it might have been yet But my arms grew careless like a fear that they would Now my arms are empty my lips are so cold and my name is Mud My name is Mud my darling is gone She won't even see me she won't even write me she won't even call Oh they call me a cheater and they say I'm no good And in any man's language my name is Mud [ piano ] My true love worshipped the ground where I stand Till the learned the hard way it was just shifting sand Oh she cried enough teardrops to start her a flood Teardrops soak my name in the sand and my name is Mud My name is Mud...