Paying For That Back Street Affair Chords by Kitty Wells

_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[Bb] _ _ Yes, I thought that you were true when [Eb] I fell in love [Bb] with you,
for you told me [F] you always would [Bb] play square.
_ Then I learned you had a home, [Eb] that your wife had not [F] gone wrong,
and [Bb] our love was just [F] a backstreet [Bb] affair.
Was too late to say no [Eb] when I found you'd fool [Bb] me so,
for as time passed on [F] I'd learned so much [Bb] to care.
Though I knew I must atone, [Eb] but my will was not [F] my own,
[Bb] I'm paying for [F] that backstreet [Bb] affair. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ You didn't count the calls, [Eb] you gambled and [Bb] I lost,
now I must pay [F] with hours of deep [Bb] despair.
_ _ You still can live your life [Eb] with a true forgiving [F] wife,
[Bb] but I can't live [F] down a backstreet affair.
_ [Bb] _ The love I gave so free [Eb] is left to torture [Bb] me,
though I know it's [F] hopeless and it [Bb] isn't fair.
_ But still I must go on, [Eb] while the gossips spread [F] are wrong,
[Bb] I'm paying [F] for that [Bb] backstreet affair. _ _ _ _ _ _ _