For the love of a woman, well many a man,
Has wound up cryin´, tryin´ to understand.
I´ve had my share of heartache and pain,
I´m not worried now, I´m not ashamed.

My first time lover I was just seventeen,
We made love and I was lost in a dream.
She said that nothin´ would ever go wrong,
I woke up one mornin´ - guess what? - she was gone.

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble.
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble.

So many nights I spent alone,
Just me and that damn telephone.
Holdin´ for love, but waiting in vain,
The same old feelin´, and it´s drivin´ me insane.

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble.
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble.

[Rod - Slide Solo]

For the love of a woman, I searched high and low,
Hopin´ that someday I´d be troubled no more.
I guess I was wrong in so many ways,
Now I´ll be in trouble for the rest of my days.

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble.
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble.
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble.
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble.
Trouble!

[Rod - Slide Solo]
Nothin´ but trouble - nothin´ but trouble

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble, yeah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, love ain´t nothin´ but trouble...