You didn't know I wasn't free when you fell in love with me 

And with all your young heart you learned to care 

It brought you shame and disgrace 

The world has tumbled in your face 

Because they call our love a back street affair 



They say you wrecked my home 

I'm a husband that's gone wrong 

They don't know the sorrow that we had to bear 

While the one I was tied to was the first to be untrue 

How can they call our love a back street affair 



Well we have each other now 

That's all that matters anyhow 

While the judgement of gossips never fair 

We'll just be brave and strong 

Then someday they'll see they're wrong 

So let them call our love a back street affair 



We'll be free to love someday 

When all the talk has died away 

And the happiness we hoped for then we'll share 

And I'll climb a mountain high and the world will hear me cry 

That our love is not a back street affair