I Was Checking Out While She Was Checking In

I just got finished given the hotel

manager back the room key and paid my bill

I was outside in the car

In the shadows of the parkin' lot

Tellin' the woman I was with

how happy she made me

Kissin' and huggin'

An all of a sudden another car

pulled up on the parkin' lot

But I couldn't believe my eyes

'Cause the woman that was sitting

in the front seat beside another dude

Turned out to be my old lady

Lord, I was checkin' out

And she was checkin' in

Yeah, yeah, yeah, (yeah)

(Oh yeah)

Oh, let me tell you people

I was checkin' out, um-hm

An my old lady was checkin' in

Oh Lord, have mercy!

I was with my other woman

And she, she was with her boyfriend

She waited outside ya'all, in the car

While he went in, yeah

To rent the room

I wanted to say something to her

But there was nothing I could say, yeah

'Cause the woman I was with

Yes, she was married too!

Lord, I was checkin' out

And she was checkin' in (checkin' in)

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, yes she was

Ya'all, I saw another man took my old lady

(Oh took my baby)

Let me tell ya

In the Hideaway Motor Inn

(Motor Inn) yeah baby um-hm

Uum, I was with my other woman

(Oh, I was treated wrong, yeah)

And she was with her boyfriend

She was suppose to be at home

Mindin' the kids

The both of us had been untrue

(Been untrue)

Guess I'll have to go on

Bein' blind

I can't reveal her guilt

Without' showin' mine, Lord!

I was checkin' out

(Checkin out, sho' nuff was)

As she was checkin' in

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hoo hey! umm, let me tell ya

What hurt me so bad, ya'all

(Hurt me, really hurt me so bad)

Really hurt me so bad

(It hurt me)

The man gave him the same room I had

Yes, he did, yeah-yeah

The same room I was in (yeah)

Umm!, what a terrible blow it was

(Such a terrible, terrible, terrible thing it was)

What a terrible thing

To do to a man, yeah-yeah

She was smilin'

And she never smiles!

I think my debt has

Caught up with me ya'all

Lord, have mercy.