Twas with no surprise I could feel his eyes
 
 A-comin' straight through the back of my head
 
 So I took my flight by the pale moonlight
 
 No instinct to guide me, I fled
 
 "If I catch you still with my wife I'll kill you, boy"
 
 That's what he told me before
 
 I didn't pay no heed cause she said I'd need
 
 So I kept going back there for more
 
  
  Look out behind you, all right
 
 If you don't leave it alone
 
 He's gonna hound you all night
 
 Said slow down boy and they'll carry you home
  
 
 There could be no way I was going to stay
 
 With a man like that on my heel
 
 He was six foot four and could eat a door
 
 And his fists were like great blocks of steel
 
 But his wife was rude and it seemed so good
 
 To have fun while he was away
 
 While he lived in hope of the sale of soap
 
 Like the cat and the mouse we would play
  
 
 Look out behind you, all right
 
 If you don't leave it alone
 
 He's gonna hound you all night
 
 Said slow down boy and they'll carry you home
  
 
 It was late that night when he came inside
 
 I could see through the glass by the door
 
 For his key had stuck and I praised my luck
 
 As I dived from the bed to the floor
 
 When I heard him yell like a bat from hell
 
 I was out enough down the road
 
 Twas with no surprise I could feel his eyes
 
 And imagine the gun that he'd load
  
 
 Right up behind me all right
 
 Cos I couldn't leave it alone
 
 He will hound me all night
 
 Said, slow down boy and they'll carry you home