Lord I be bound, I be bound
Bound to write to you
I can read your writing girl
And I don't care what to do
I be bound
I be bound to write to you
I can read your little writing girl
And I don't care what in the world to do

Well I feel sometime
Like you turned me alone
(?)
I be bound
I be bound to write to you
Yeah honey I can read your little writing yeah
I don't care what in the world to do

Well I'm leaving this morning
Don't you wanna go
Take off to (?)
Don't come back here no more
But I be bound
I be bound to write to you
Now honey I can read your writing yeah
And I don't care what in the world to do
Well I ain't lonesome any longer
Sleeping by yourself
Woman that you been loving
Now she be loving someone else
I be bound
I be bound to write to you
Yeah honey I can read your writing yeah
And I don't care what in the world to do

Well like anybody (?)
(?)
Tell 'em old Mr. Heartbreaker boys
That old man been here and gone
I be bound
He got me bound to write to you
Now honey I can read your little writing yeah
And I don't care what in the world to do