A chain of steel a wall of stone could not keep me from you   But while your finger wears a ring of gold what can I do   I'm burning up with love but still I'm left out in the cold   Because you wear a yellow band of fourteen karat gold   I never should have let my heart go roaming by itself   But it gets awful lonesome when your heart sets on the shelf   I should have tied it with a string so it could be controled   To stay away from a yellow band of fourteen karat gold   [ guitar - piano ]   I realize that I was wrong that I was all to blame   If there's a ring upon her finger never fan the flame   I'm ready now to pay the price of loving much too bold   A girl who wears a yellow band of fourteen karat gold