Fool's Castle - Merle Haggard, The Strangers

It’s a big house on a hilltop fine carpets on the floor

Expensive polished marble are the steps up to the door

Vines are climbing up to the roof top as if there’s something they’d like to

hide

People call it a fool’s Castle and I’m the fool that lives inside

The girl is gone that warmed the castle

Now it’s dark the flame has died

It’s a big house on a hilltop without love and without pride

People call it a Fool’s Castle and I’m the fool that lives inside

She used to live here I thought she was lucky she had what most girls only

dream of

I gave her diamonds silk and satin I gave her everything but love

And with my giving I gave her nothing she wanted only to be by my side

Yes they call it a Fool’s Castle and I’m the fool that lives inside