Every Tear

as I walk through the tumbleweeds and cactus
I recall what I once called my own
here the mockingbird did fly, here the cornstalk grew so high
now they’ve gone and left me standing all alone
Chorus:
I have cried every tear I can cry,
now my fields and my eyes are all dry,
there is nary a cloud in my sunny blue sky,
I have cried every tear I can cry.
up the road around the corner was the well-house,
that I built up from the ground with my two hands,
now if you fall down in the well you fall straight down to Hell,
and the echo will be heard in foreign lands.
CHORUS
do you remember the November when I kissed you?
the first time you told me to stop,
but by the time the rain came down,
we were rolling on the ground,
and we drowned each other sorrows,
drop by drop.
I have asked the Good Lord whether,
we were gone apart forever,
now it a’int so much a whether as a why,
you have your whole life to live,
I have nothin’ left to give,
I have cried every tear I can cry.
CHORUS