NO ONE TO CALL ME DARLING
Gene Autry

Gene Autry (vocal and guitar)
recorded Dec 3rd 1929


When I come home in the evening,
I get my lonesome pipe;
No one to call me darling,
No one to say goodnight.

When I had plenty of money,
The girls all gathered round me,
But now I have no money,
They've all gone back on me.

I went to see my darling,
She was so neat and clean,
She was just as fair as a lily
And looked like sweet sixteen.

I asked my darling to marry,
She looked at me and smiled,
And said to me, "Sweetheart,
Just wait a little while!".

(yodel)

If I had listened to mother,
I wouldn't been here today,
But I was young and foolish
And gambled my money away.

Now when I think about her,
I hang my head and cry.
If I could only kiss her,
I would be ready to die.

When I am dead and buried,
My guitar by my side,
The girls will gather round me
And cry because I died.

(yodel)



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - June 2013)