You can put a stick in my spokes   I can be the butt of your jokes   I can be the laughing stock, I can be your hoax   But I aint gonna lose you      They can come and tear my house down   They can run me out of town   They can tie me up, call me a clown   But I ain’t gonna lose you      I can’t stand   The thought of another man      They can make me turn my back on my friends   Send me away to up in san quentin   Put me in the hole, a thousand times again    But I ain’t gonna lose you      Throw me in a hurricane   Tell the whole world I’ve gone insane   Run an electric shock to my brain    But I ain’t gonna lose you      I can’t stand   The thought of another man      I’ll sing it from my roof top   I’ll sing it from the bus stop   I’ll sing it on the street drunk to a cop   But I ain’t gonna lose you