Songwriter: Jimmy Yeary Ben Hayslip Rhett Akins
Producer: Scott Hendricks
[Verse 1]
I saw you sitting there sipping red wine down at Causen Mills
I knew you'd probably be outta my league but I thought, what the hell?
Aw, what the hell
Five dollars a glass was kicking my butt but I kept on buying
I kind of thought you were into me
So I kept on trying to get them sparks a 'flying'
[Chorus]
In my forty dollar blue jeans
Next to a beauty queen
Used to the finer things
All I had to my name was a big old truck and a little old place
I couldn't help but think
I can't afford to love you
But I can't afford not too
Ho-ho-ho
[Verse 2]
I asked you if you ever stared up at the stars from a tailgate
Down by the river with a six pack
You said no, but it sure sounds great
You climbed up in my old truck
Sitting' right beside me
I cranked up a country song
And you started smiling
Yeah, this old boy was styling
[Chorus]
In forty dollar blue jeans
Next to a beauty queen
Used to the finer things
Yeah, I missed work for three days
Kissing' on you, didn't get paid
I couldn't help but think
I can't afford to love you
But I can't afford not to
Ho-ho-ho
[Verse 3]
We been together ever since that night
You're still in love with that same old guy
Same old guy
[Chorus]
In forty dollar blue jeans
Next to a beauty queen
Used to the finer things
Yeah, we set a date for next spring
Working two jobs, picking out rings
I can't help but think
I can't afford to love you
I can't afford to love you
But I can't afford not to
Ho-ho-ho
[Outro]
I can't afford not to
Love on you
I saw you sitting there sipping red wine down at Causen Mills
I knew you'd probably be outta my league but I thought, what the hell?
Aw, what the hell
Five dollars a glass was kicking my butt but I kept on buying
I kind of thought you were into me
So I kept on trying to get them sparks a 'flying'
[Chorus]
In my forty dollar blue jeans
Next to a beauty queen
Used to the finer things
All I had to my name was a big old truck and a little old place
I couldn't help but think
I can't afford to love you
But I can't afford not too
Ho-ho-ho
[Verse 2]
I asked you if you ever stared up at the stars from a tailgate
Down by the river with a six pack
You said no, but it sure sounds great
You climbed up in my old truck
Sitting' right beside me
I cranked up a country song
And you started smiling
Yeah, this old boy was styling
[Chorus]
In forty dollar blue jeans
Next to a beauty queen
Used to the finer things
Yeah, I missed work for three days
Kissing' on you, didn't get paid
I couldn't help but think
I can't afford to love you
But I can't afford not to
Ho-ho-ho
[Verse 3]
We been together ever since that night
You're still in love with that same old guy
Same old guy
[Chorus]
In forty dollar blue jeans
Next to a beauty queen
Used to the finer things
Yeah, we set a date for next spring
Working two jobs, picking out rings
I can't help but think
I can't afford to love you
I can't afford to love you
But I can't afford not to
Ho-ho-ho
[Outro]
I can't afford not to
Love on you
more tracks from the album
The Blake Shelton Collection
- Good At Startin’ Fires
- You’ll Always Be Beautiful
- Can’t Afford To Love You
- Delilah
- Almost Alright
- All About Tonight
- Who Are You When I’m Not Looking
- That Thing We Do
- Draggin’ The River
- Suffocating
- Kiss My Country Ass
- Hillbilly Bone
- I’ll Just Hold On
- She Wouldn’t Be Gone
- 100 Miles
- Never Lovin’ You
- Country Strong
- Home Sweet Home
- This Is Gonna Take All Night
- Here I Am
- Bare Skin Rug
- Got a Little Country
- Honey Bee
- Ready To Roll
- Country On The Radio
- My Eyes
- Doin’ What She Likes
- I Still Got A Finger
- Mine Would Be You
- Lay Low
- Ten Times Crazier
- Grandaddy’s Gun
- Chances
- Small Town Big Time
- Do You Remember
- God Gave Me You
- Get Some
- Drink On It
- Good Ole Boys
- I’m Sorry
- Sunny In Seattle
- Over
- Hey
- Red River Blue
- I Can’t Walk Away
- Green
- Austin
- Heavy Liftin’
- The Baby
- Asphalt Cowboy
- In My Heaven
- The Dreamer
- My Neck Of The Woods
- Underneath The Same Moon
- Georgia In A Jug
- Playboys Of The Southwestern World
- If I Was Your Man
- Problems At Home
- Sure Be Cool If You Did
- Boys ’Round Here
- Every Time I Look At You
- All Over Me
- She Doesn’t Know She’s Got It
- Ol’ Red
- I Thought There Was Time
- Same Old Song
- That’s What I Call Home
- Someday
- Some Beach
- Nobody But Me
- The More I Drink
- I Don’t Care
- She Don’t Love Me
- Back There Again
- It Ain’t Easy Bein’ Me
- What I Wouldn’t Give
- I Have Been Lonely
- She Can’t Get That
- The Last Country Song
- Don’t Make Me
- This Can’t Be Good
- Good Old Boy, Bad Old Boyfriend
- Love Gets In The Way
- Goodbye Time
- Cotton Pickin’ Time
- What’s On My Mind
- When Somebody Knows You That Well
- On A Good Day
- The Bartender
- I Drink
- Home
From the albums
- Hillbilly Bone EP (2010)
- The Blake Shelton Collection (2013)
Blake Shelton popular songs
- God’s Country
- Nobody But You
- Turnin’ Me On
- Boys ’Round Here
- She’s Got a Way With Words
- I Lived It
- Minimum Wage
- Austin
- I’ll Name the Dogs
- A Guy With a Girl
- Sangria
- Mine Would Be You
- Hell Right
- Bet You Still Think About Me
- Every Time I Hear That Song
- Happy Anywhere
- Ol’ Red
- Came Here to Forget
- God Gave Me You
- Sure Be Cool If You Did
- Home (”Cheers, It’s Christmas”)
- Go Ahead and Break My Heart
- We Can Reach the Stars
- Lonely Tonight