when i pay my bills gonna leave these tennessee hills take my lady to the sea that s where we both come from that s where we both belong think i ll go back to the keys chorus cause i don t want the fame that brings confusion where people recognize you on a plane all i want s the quiet and the comforts that livin with my lovely lady brings somehow we survived the double talk and jive things are looking better all the time i owe her all i can cause she made me understand the simple way that we should live our lives chorus and i don t want the fame that brings confusion where people recognize you on a plane all i want s the quiet and the comforts that livin with my lovely lady brings let me tell you now she can eat her own weight up in crab meat and there s plenty of that down there by the sea well we re sailin in those warm december breezes sendin picture postcards back to tennessee chorus yes and i don t want the fame that brings confusion where people recognize you on a plane all i want s the quiet and the comforts that livin with my lovely lady brings yeah that livin with my lovely lady brings