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 place 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 ve had to bear for the one that i m tied to was the first to be untrue and yet they call our love a back street affair we have each other now that s all that matters anyhow why the judgment of gossip s 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 ve hoped for then we ll share i ll climb a mountain high and the world will hear me cry that our love is not a back street affair