Tonight, I, I just want to talk to the ladies   Oh fellows your cool but girls   If you've got a good man   You'd better keep him      Oh I know you're saying right now   What does she know?   Who is she to tell me about my situation   Well, I don't know your situation   But whatever it is, you should try to stay together      You know that big argument that you had the other night, remember   Well, today it's not nothing, just don't let him leave you, honey   'Cause then you'll find out that it wasn't those   Real big things you loved about him   It was the real small things, go on and laugh but it's true      You know, things that you've seen a thousand times around the house   But never paid any attention to   Like helping with the groceries   And helping in the yard, painting and repairing and   Huh, paying the bills      But you know now   All I have is memories and regrets   I could have given our love a chance to grow but no   I had to challenge it and be heard   Let me tell you something      That female liberation stuff   I don't know, sometimes   I don't think it's worth it   And I'm really feeling   Feeling kind of bad y'all      I'm catching hell living here alone   I never realized, oh Lord, that you mean so much to me   I'm catching Hell living here alone, I want you to come back, baby   Come back 'cause here's where you belong, oh yeah      If I could replay   If I could replay that whole scene again, oh well   You know that I would never, never say it again   That our love, our love is at it's end      And oh, you know that I would kind of ease on back, yes I would   And let confusion pass on by   I took a fool's way out, oh yeah   Without one good reason why      I'm catching hell, catching hell   Lord I'm living, living, living here alone   Alone, lone, I didn't believe it could be   You know all the pressure on me, all the time      Oh, I'm catching hell, well, well   Living here alone, lone, lone, lone   Lone, lone, lone, to tell you the truth, to tell you the truth   I'm going out of my mind, yeah      (Oh, do you hear me tonight)   I don't have too much more to say except   (This is my story)   Somebody told me that if you've got something   (Hey, this is my song)      That's good to you and you don't use it, you might lose it   (Sad, sad, sad, song)   (Song, so sad)      So girls hold on to your good thing   (Oh)   (You gotta hold on a little bit now)      And don't let go, oh do you hear me tonight   It's so sad living alone, living alone   Hold on to your good thing, hold on   (Well, well)   Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah   Oh, oh, oh, Lordy, Lordy do you know what it's like      Catching hell   (Somebody turn up the microphone, oh)   Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no