MENTAL REVENGE
(Mel Tillis)

Mel Tillis - 1966
Johnny Darrell - 1966
Hank Williams Jr. - 1967
Waylon Jennings - 1968
Gram Parsons - 1969
Linda Ronstadt - 1970
Barbara Mandrell - 1976
Nashville West - 1976
The Geezinslaws - 1988
Pam Tillis - 2002
Hacienda Brothers - 2005
Johnny Bush 2006
Jamey Johnson - 2010



 
I hope that the friend you've thrown yourself with
He gets drunk and loses his job
And every road that you travel on
Is dusty, rocky and hard

I couldn't make you love me 
You only made me blue
So all in all, if the curtain should fall
Lord, I hope that it falls on you

I will have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I will have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge

(Instrumental Break)

Well, I hope that the train from Caribou, Maine
Runs over your new love affair
You walk the floor from door to door
And pull out your peroxide hair

You never was my woman 
'Cause you were never true
So all in all, if the curtain should fall
Lord, I hope that it falls on you

I will have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I will have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I will have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge


(Transcribed from the Waylon Jennings 
recording by Mel Priddle - December 2010)