[1] It's a lonesome feeling when you're traveling
Down a lonesome road down a lonesome [4] road
Nobody [2m] cares a thing about [1] you
It's a heavy [2m] load it's a heavy [1] load

I fell in love in Cincinnati
Her love was true and she told me so
I gave her rings and all my money
Where she ran off to I'll never know

I wish that I was in Kentucky
With papa and mama dear
But mama's gone and so is papa
And Kentucky's a long way from here