WEAKNESS IN A MAN
(Jerry Chesnut)


Roy Drusky - 1967
Roy Clark - 1968
Waylon Jennings - 1968
Jimmy Dean - 1971



Funny how you've changed, it makes me wonder
Have I ever really known you
How could you abuse and use the kindness
And tenderness I've shown you
 
If I'd have known, then I'd have shown the strength
On which my love could make a stand
But you've mistaken tenderness and kindness
For the weakness in a man
 
I can give you almost anything
If I know what you're looking for
I can give you everything
That any other man can give and more
 
He may promise you the world
But I can give you everything he can
So don't mistake my tenderness
For any sign of weakness in your man
 
(Instrumental Break)
 
I may live my life alone with walls
Of stone inside some lonely cell
But no man's gonna take the love I own
And never live to tell the tale
 
So don't forsake the vows you made
And don't remove my little golden band
And don't mistake my tenderness
For any sign of weakness in your man
 
No, don't mistake my tenderness
For any sign of weakness in your man 






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2011)