Shelly's Winter Love - Merle Haggard, The Strangers

I know I’m only Shelly’s winter love

She only seems to need me now and then

I know I’m only Shelly’s winter love

But she’s mine alone until springtime comes again

When springtime comes I know that she’ll be leaving

When those friends of her’s start calling her uptown

So I live and wait for Shelly’s winter season

When her troubled moments bring her back around

When Shelly’s painted world turns cold and stormy

It’s then she finds the need to come around

To these arms of mine she knows are always waiting

But she’ll leave when love has thawed the winter ground