If you ever leave, and I imagine you will It'll just be me and the whippoorwill Just we two, and the evening star If you close your suitcase and go get in your car And drive down the road In the mud or the dust Over to the river, KC or bust If you ever go, I'll be here still Getting annoyed at the whippoorwill Getting annoyed, unable to sleep The dust too dusty or the mud too deep I'll follow your dust or I'll follow your tracks Out to the hard road and I'll bring you back ♪ If you won't come back, I'll stay on your trail Up through heaven, or down through hell I'll miss this old place, I'll miss these old hills But I sure won't miss that whippoorwill ♪ You are sweeter to me than the birds or the stars Dear to me than the hills and the flowers Long as I have you I can take anything So let love be our home, and let the whippoorwill sing