(Harlan Howard)

If I cried every time you hurt me
I'd be crying all the time
If I made a scene each time you're mean
We'd be quarrellin' all the time.

But I don't cry and I don't get mad
I try to take the good with the bad
If I cried every time you hurt me
I'd be crying all the time,

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Now and then you say you love me
And I try to believe it's true
Then you turn right around and hurt me
Like I was nothing to you.

But I love you so and I'll stay somehow
My tears won't flow and my head won't bow
If I cried every time you hurt me
I'd be crying all the time.

Oh, I'd be crying all the time...