a man came into our town swinging his partner around he grabbed his young maid by the wrist and bent down to give her a paper to sign right away saying they re parting their ways she grabbed her man by his side and stared right deep in his wallet to get her fair share but when she got her hands in there the wallet was empty of course so she said that you can t have your distance makes the heart grow fonder if you ain t fond go wait a little farther when you return be sure to ring my bell because you got lots of my things that i need to get so if you get back and i ain t home yet i ll leave a note tellin you to go to helen s restaurant so when that young woman got home she couldn t just sit there alone she called her mother in tears and worried she d wasted her beauty on a blind old buffoon who s better off under a tomb her mother said cryin s no use every woman takes a little absence makes the heart grow fonder if you ain t fond go wait a little longer when you return be sure to ring my bell because you got lots of my things that i need to get so if you get back and i ain t home yet i ll leave a note tellin you to go to helen s restaurant