A E A A D A You didn't know I wasn't free, when you fell in love with me E7 A And with all your young heart you learned to care D E7 It brought you shame and disgrace the world has tumbled in your place A E7 A For they call our love a back street affair A D A They say you wrecked my home, I'm a husband that's gone wrong E7 A They don't know the sorrow that we have to bear D E7 For the one that I'm tied to was the first to prove untrue A E7 A Yet they call our love a back street affair A D A D (Change Key To "D") Loretta Lynn D G D Sweetheart I always knew, when I fell in love with you A7 D The heartaches that we would have to bear G A7 I knew a call gets around and that all over town D A7 D They would call our love a back street affair D G D They say I wrecked your life and brought sorrow to your wife A7 D That I was just a girl who didn't seem to care G A7 But if they only knew how she slips around on you D A7 D They wouldn't call our love a back street affair (Change Key To "E") Conway And Loretta E A E When the mist rolls away, we'll be free to love some day B7 E And find happiness that we were made to share A B7 We'll climb a mountain high and the world will hear us cry E B7 E That our love is not a back street affair