winchester i lived with the decent folks in the hills of old vermont where what you do all day depends on what you want and i took up with a woman there though i was still a kid and i smile like the sun to think of all the loving that we did she rose each morning and went off to work and she kept me with her pay i was making sweet love all night and playing this old guitar all day and i got apple cider and homemade bread that would make a man kneel down he would say grace and clean linens on our bed and a warm feet fire place yankee lady so good to me yankee lady just a memory yankee lady so good to me your memories gonna have to do for me an autumn walk on a old country road with a million flaming trees i was feeling a little uneasy cause there was winter chill in the breeze and she said oh jesse look over there i see birds are they are all southward bound oh jesse i m so afraid we are going to lose the love that we ve found yankee lady so good to me yankee lady just a memory yankee lady so good to me your memories gonna have to do for me i don t know what called to me but i know that i plain had to go i left that little old vermont town to live down in sunny mexico and now when i can see myself as a stranger by my birth the yankee lady s old memory to remind me of my worth yankee lady so good to me yankee lady just a memory yankee lady so good to me your memories gonna have to do for me