You can put a stick in my spokes

I can be the butt of your jokes

I can be the laughing stock, I can be the hoax

But I ain't gonna lose you

No, I ain't gonna lose you

They [bad word] and tear my house down

They [bad word] me out of town

They can tie me up, call me a clown

But I ain't gonna lose you

No, I ain't gonna lose you

I can't stand the thought of another man

No, I ain't gonna lose you

They can make me turn my back on my friends

And send me away to San Quentin

Put me in the hole thousand times again

Oh, I ain't gonna lose you

No, I ain't gonna lose you

Throw me in a hurricane

Tell the whole world I've gone insane
 [bad word] an electric shock to my brain

But I ain't gonna lose you

No, I ain't gonna lose you

I can't stand the thought of another man

No, I ain't gonna lose you

No, I ain't gonna lose, ain't gonna lose

Ain't gonna lose, ain't gonna lose

Ain't gonna lose, ain't gonna lose

And I'll sing it from my roof top

Sing it from the bus stop

Sing it on the street [bad word] to a cop

Oh, I ain't gonna lose you

No, I ain't gonna lose, ain't gonna lose you

Ain't gonna lose you, ain't gonna lose

Gonna lose you, gonna lose