"I’ve Lusted"

Jimmy Carter's my name and I've unwanted fame 'cause I've lusted
A good-lookin' dame makes my fantasies flame, yes, I've lusted.
I know Harrigan's claim was that never a shame
could be tied to his name but I can't say the same ...
tho' merely a game in my mind and quite tame, still, I've lusted.

I'm a good Baptist lad and a well-meaning dad, but I've lusted.
Yes, I've always been glad to see ladies unclad, oh, I've lusted!
Tho' I'm hardly as bad as that impaler, Vlad,
still, now Rosalyn's mad 'cause I've made Amy sad
and I feel like cad. Oh, I wish that I had never lusted!

Now my folks always taught that by God I'd be caught if I lusted,
And my whole life's been fraught with the fear sinning brought when I lusted.
So I've tried as I ought to keep wholesome my thought
but as hard as I've fought it has all been for naught
for today when I saw't the new Hustler I bought and I lusted.

(I'm goin' t' hell,
sho' 'nuff, yeah ...
no doubt ... )