Yes I thought that you were true when I fell in love with you   For you told me you always would play square   Then I learned you had a home that your wife had done gone wrong   And our love was just a back street affair   Twas too late to say no when I found you fooled me so   For as time passed on I'd learned so much to care   Though I knew I must atone but my will was not my own   I'm paying for that back street affair   [ fiddle ]   You didn't cound the cost you gambled and I lost   Now I must pay with hours of deep despair   You still can live your life with a true forgiving wife   But I can't live down a back street affair   The love I gave so free is left to torture me   Though I know it's hopeless and it isn't fair   But still I must go on while the gisspips spread our wrong   I'm paying for that back street affair