See the women dressed in scarlet step into that bar room door
With painted face and wearing cheap perfume
Though she may appear enticing still there's pain in her eyes
And inside her heart there's never healing wounds
She was innocent and lovely,a girl of seventeen
When I took her where I knew she'd never been
Then I left her hurt and crying in the cheval of her life
So don't blame her for the world she's living in
Once that women dressed in scarlet used to love me
Long before her love was something you could buy
Because of me she's what you see out walking
That women dressed in scarlet used to be my girl in white
She don't love me any longer life has watered down the flame
And a burning hate has risen in it's place
Though a man may touch her body he can't touch her cold, cold heart
And her eye's will never match her smiling face
But, that women dressed in scarlet used to love me
Long before her love was something you could buy
Because of me she's what you see out walking
That women dressed in scarlet used to be my girl in white
* Refrain
Yes, that women dressed in scarlet used to be my girl in white