forty days and forty nights since my baby left this town sun shinin all day long but the rain keep comin down she s my life i need her so why she left i just don t know forty days and forty nights since i set right down and cried keep rainin all the time but the river is runnin dry lord help me it just ain t right i love that girl with all of my might forty days and forty nights since my baby broke my heart searchin for her everywhere like a blind man in the dark love can make a poor man rich or break his heart i don t know which forty days and forty nights like a ship out on the sea prayin for her each night that she would come back home to me life is love and love is right i hope she come back home tonight