Lyrics Merle Haggard

Merle Haggard

Shelly's Winter Love

I know I'm only Shelly's winter love

She only seems to need me now and then

I know I'm only Shelly's winter love

But she's mine alone till springtime comes again

When springtime comes I know that she'll be leavin'

When those friends of her's start callin' her uptown

So I live and wait for Shelly's winter season

When her troubled moments bring her back around

I know I'm only Shelly's winter love

She only seems to need me now and then

I know I'm only Shelly's winter love

But she's mine alone till springtime comes again

When Shelly's painted world turns cold and stormy

It's then she finds the need to come around

To these arms of mine she knows are always waiting

But she'll leave when love has thawed the winter ground

I know I'm only Shelly's winter love

She only seems to need me now and then

I know I'm only Shelly's winter love

But she's mine alone till springtime comes again