your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair with ivory skin and eyes of emerald green your smile is like a breath of spring your voice is soft like summer rain and i cannot compete with you jolene he talks about you in his sleep and there s nothing i can do to keep from crying when he calls your name jolene and i can easily understand how you could easily take my man but you don t know what he means to me jolene jolene jolene jolene jolene i m begging of you please don t take my man jolene jolene jolene jolene please don t take him just because you can you could have your choice of men but i could never love again he s the only one for me jolene i had to have this talk with you my happiness depends on you and whatever you decide to do jolene jolene jolene jolene jolene i m begging of you please don t take my man jolene jolene jolene jolene please don t take him just because you can