It's Time To Pay The Fiddler Lyrics - Ernest Tubb

Well it's time to pay the fiddler and it's sad to know we've danced it all away 

But the one night disappearing leaving nothing but the cold hard light of day 

And it's time to start erasin' all the rainbows we've been chasing in our minds 

We know there's no way of making other ties on us unravel and unwind 

Yes it's time to pay the fiddler and today's the day the first instalment's due 

For the rest of all my days I wonder why to make a mismatch me and you 

But there's so much to consider like my wife and little children 

Will need and want my love just like you do 

Now it's time to pay the fiddler but before we pay the fiddler 

Let's say to him please play one last final tune 

Well it's time to pay the fiddler and this naked sorrow dripping from your eyes 

Only stranded and unshamed we've loved each other now we've got to leave it lie 

But I can feel my hand a trembling as I search to find a handle on the door 

So let's let the fiddler pull his magic bow across our heart strings just once more 

Yes it's time to pay the fiddler...