NOT EVEN FOR LOVE
(Linda Hargrove / Susan Hargrove)


Linda Hargrove - 1977





I have just arrived in New Orleans
Greener than the grass back home in Georgia
But I had played my hand, lost my heart to a gambling man
New Orleans is home for him, he says it's home for me

But my eyes are open wide in New Orleans
For I have never seen this side o' livin'
Now he wants men in silk white collars to buy my love for silver dollars
New Orleans is home for him, but it ain't home for me

I'm goin' back to the red clay hills of Georgia
Leave the gambler and his dealings of love
'Cause I'll be damned if I'll be drug through that Louisiana mud
Not for lust or money, not even for love

I'm goin' back to the red clay hills of Georgia
Leave the gambler and his dealings of love
'Cause I'll be damned if I'll be drug through that Louisiana mud
Not for lust or money, not even for love






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2013)