Roger Miller — Big Harlan Taylor

I once had a sweetheart the fairest of maidens She outshined all others that I'd known by far I had me a friend named Big Harlan Taylor Harlan had a rubber tied new shiny car All the ways of the world and the wants of a woman If I figured them all up it could take many years By the wants of a woman she fell for Big Harlan I tried but in vain for to take my own life Suddenly I had lost all my will to keep living She'd lost her desire to become my young wife All the ways of the world... Well I wanted revenge and we laid for Big Harlan Then I started wondering what good would it do If a rubber tied new shiny car's her ambition And I just let her hat and Big Harlan too All the ways of the world... If I figured them all up it could take many years