[Verse 1]
There's a brown paper bag wrapped around this bottle
A brown paper letter ripped up on the floor
The woman that I love, she wrote me this morning
Just to tell me that she felt me the same way no more
[Chorus]
To weep and to cry, to weep and to cry
The woman that I love, Lord, she wrote me goodbye
I'm home sick and lonesome, Lord, I'm lonesome at the core Tears fell on the page like a torrential downpour
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 2]
So I pickеd up the pieces to thе letter you wrote me
The brown paper fragments, I threw 'em all away
And I took to the bottle, my last loyal companion
And the only one I knew who wouldn't lead me astray
[Chorus]
To weep and to cry, to weep and to cry
The woman that I love, Lord, she wrote me goodbye
I'm home sick and lonesome, Lord, I'm lonesome at the core
Tears fell on the page like a torrential downpour
There's a brown paper bag wrapped around this bottle
A brown paper letter ripped up on the floor
The woman that I love, she wrote me this morning
Just to tell me that she felt me the same way no more
[Chorus]
To weep and to cry, to weep and to cry
The woman that I love, Lord, she wrote me goodbye
I'm home sick and lonesome, Lord, I'm lonesome at the core Tears fell on the page like a torrential downpour
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 2]
So I pickеd up the pieces to thе letter you wrote me
The brown paper fragments, I threw 'em all away
And I took to the bottle, my last loyal companion
And the only one I knew who wouldn't lead me astray
[Chorus]
To weep and to cry, to weep and to cry
The woman that I love, Lord, she wrote me goodbye
I'm home sick and lonesome, Lord, I'm lonesome at the core
Tears fell on the page like a torrential downpour