Speak Now Or Hereafter Hold Your Peace

[Verse]
[?] Joe from Baltimore
He courted a gal name Eliza Snow
His love [?], I felt so sorry for Joe
Bashful and silly, and he worked so slow
Eliza said to him "You ain't got much courage, Jim"
Instead of him talkin', he just laughed and grinned
Time grew short, and she called his sort
And this is what she said to him

[Chorus]
Speak now or hereafter hold your peace
There ain't nobody else but me
You're too old to be a baby, why don't you act like a man
What you got to tell, tell it while you can
'Cause it's a long road that ain't got no curve
And it's a [?] man that ain't-a got no nerve
So speak now or hеreafter hold your peacе
There ain't nobody here but me, I say
There ain't nobody here but me

[Instrumental Break]
Come on, Joe
[Don't] act like that, daddy
[?] is made for two

[Chorus]
That's why you men ain't got no families today
You ain't got no nerve, you're scared to tell us women just what you got to say
So speak now or hereafter hold your peace
There ain't nobody here but me, I say
There ain't nobody here but me