In between two tall mountains
There's a place they call Lonesome
Don't see why they call it Lonesome
I'm never lonesome when I go there

See that bird sitting on my windowsill?
Well, he's sayin': Whippoorwill all the night through
See that brook running by my kitchen door
Well, it couldn't talk no more if it was you

Up that tree there's sort of a squirrel thing
Sounds just like we did when we were quarreling
In the yard I keep a pig or two
They drop in for dinner like you used to do

I don't stand in the need of company
With everything I see, talking like you

Up that tree there's sort of a squirrel thing
Sounds just like we did when we were quarreling
You may think you left me all alone
But I can hear you talk without a telephone

I don't stand in the need of company
With everything I see, talking like you

See that bird sitting on my windowsill?
Well, he's sayin': Whippoorwill all the night through
Just whippoorwill, all the night through

In between two tall mountains
There's a place they call Lonesome
Don't see why they call it Lonesome
I'm never lonesome, now I live there