i ve 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 full grown man though i was still a kid and i smile like the sun to think of the loving that we did he rose each morning and went to work and he kept me with his pay well i was making love all night and playing guitar all day and i made apple cider and home made bread to make the man say grace in a house that he built by hand with a warm feet fireplace yankee man so good to me yankee man just a memory yankee man so good to me the memory is enough for me an autumn walk on a country road with a million flaming trees well i was feeling uneasy there was winter in the breeze and he said oh baby look over there the birds are southward bound oh baby i am so afraid to lose the love we found yankee man so good to me yankee man just a memory yankee man so good to me the memory is enough for me i ve lived with the decent folk in the hills of old vermont where what you do all day depends on what you want and i took up with a full grown man though i was still a kid and i smile like the sun to think of the loving that we did and i smile like the sun to think of the loving that we did and i smile like the sun to think of the loving that we did