My name was Stranger on the night that we met
And then it was Sweetheart and it might have been yet
But my arms grew careless like a beard that they would
Now my arms are empty, my lips are so cold
My name is Bud, my name is Bud
My darling is gone
She won't even see me, she won't even write me
She won't even call
Oh, they call me a cheater
And they say I'm no good
And in any man's language
My name is Bud
My true love worshipped
The ground where I stand
Till she learned the hard way
That it's just shifted sand
She cried enough teardrops
To start her a flood
Teardrops wrote my name in the sand
Now my name is Bud
My name is Bud
My darling is gone
She won't even see me, she won't even write me
She won't even call
Yet they call me a cheater
And they say I'm no good
And in any man's language
My name is Bud
My name is Bud