You didn't know I wasn't free when you fell in love with me   And with all your young heart you learned to care   It brought you shame and disgrace the world has tumbled in your place   'Cause they call our love a back street affair      They say you wrecked my home I'm a husband that's gone wrong   They don't know the sorrow that we've had to bear   For the one that I'm tied to was the first to be untrue   Yes they call our love a back street affair      We have each other now that's all that matters anyhow   Oh the judgment of gossip's never fair   We'll just be brave and strong then someday they'll see they're wrong   Let them call our love a back street affair      We'll be free for love someday when all the talk is dead away   And the happiness we've hoped for then we'll share   I'll climb a mountain high and then the world will hear me cry   That our love is not a back street affair