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 To weep and to cry, to weep and to cry The woman that I love, Lord, she wrote me goodbye I'm homesick and lonesome, Lord, I'm lonesome at the core Tears fell on the page like a torrential downpour ♪ So I picked up the pieces to the 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 To weep and to cry, to weep and to cry The woman that I love, Lord, she wrote me goodbye I'm homesick and lonesome, Lord, I'm lonesome at the core Tears fell on the page like a torrential downpour