Waylon Jennings — Cedartown Georgia

[Verse] I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her She never had much, just a sharecropper's daughter But I married her and took her down to New Orleans Bought a little house in the South French Quarter Got a job hooking bales, loading them on a steamboat I give her seven days pay next day I'm broke When she ain't a sleeping all day she's a primping Every evening when the sun goes down She starts a swarming on Orleans town Walking into work this morning at daybreak I caught her with the tall long dandy from canebreak She walked right by me and she looked right through me I made up my mind what I'm a gonna do Eased in the pawnshop and bought a 22 Watched as the roomclerk gave them a room key Standing outside I could read Room 23 Tonight I'll put her on a train for Georgia Gonna be a lotta kin folks squalling and a grieving 'Cause that Cedartown gal ain't breathing...