Your Selfish Heart by The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys
Recorded at King Record Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio
Track 8 LP: The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys (King 615)
Standard Tuning
Key: E
3/4 (Waltz) Time


[Intro]
    
  


[Verse 1]
            
I’m going away

    
 to stay awhil

e
            
Just to ease m

        
y worried mind
            
You never care

      
d for me my lo

ve
             
So I’m leaving

   
 you behind


[Chorus]
            
It’s been this

        
 way so long m

y dear
            
Why can’t you 


understand
            
Your selfish h

           
eart broke up 

our home
           
Just for anoth

   
er man

[Instrumental]
    
  

[Verse 2]
            
I tried to liv

     
e my life alon

e
            
All through th

           
ese lonely yea

rs
            
I keep your pi

      
cture here wit

h me
             
Just to dry th

         
ese bitter tea

rs


[Chorus]
            
It’s been this

        
 way so long m

y dear
            
Why can’t you 


understand
            
Your selfish h

           
eart broke up 

our home
           
Just for anoth

     
er man