(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers - Merle Haggard, The Strangers

All the love you promised would be mine forever

I would have bet my bottom dollar on

Well, it sure turned out to be a short forever

Just once I turned my back and you were gone

From now on all my friends are gonna be strangers

I’m all through ever trusting anyone

The only thing I can count on now is my fingers

I was a fool believing in you and now you are gone

--- Instrumental ---

It amazes me not knowing any better

Than to think I found a love that should be true

Oh, I should be taken out and tarred and feathered

Than to let myself be taken in by you

From now on all my friends are gonna be strangers

I’m all through ever trusting anyone

The only thing I can count on now is my fingers

I was a fool believing in you and now you are gone…