Skeeter Davis performs "I'm a Lover (Not a Fighter)"

"I'm a Lover (Not a Fighter)" is a song written by Ronny Light and recorded and released as a single by American country artist, Skeeter Davis.

 

The song was recorded at the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States on October 1, 1969. The session was produced by Ronny Light as well. The song was released as a single in November 1969, reaching the top-ten on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart in 1970. Additionally, it became Davis' first second to chart on the Canadian RPM Country Songs chart, reaching number seven. In 1970, the song was issued onto her studio album A Place in the Country.

Skeeter Davis - I'm a Lover (Not a Fighter) Lyrics

 

I only married you for love dear I didn't go for all of your dough

Now and then you say you love me but honey baby it didn't show

I never seemed to please you lately cause all you ever do is complain

I'm sick of this fussin' and fightin' so baby let your loving woman explain.

 

I'm a lover not a fighter

I kinda like it that way

If you want a fightin' partner

Go live with Cassius Clay.

 

A woman is soft and tender and willing to love her man

So why don't you take advantage of the woman that you know I am

I don't want to fuss and fight dear for the rest of my natural life

Stop treatin' me like your enemy start treatin' me like a wife.

 

I'm a lover not a fighter

I kinda like it that way

If you want a fightin' partner

Go live with Cassius Clay.

 

I'm a lover not a fighter

I kinda like it that way

If you want a fightin' partner

Go live with Cassius Clay.

 

I'm a lover not a fighter

I kinda like it that way

If you want a fightin' partner

Go live with Cassius Clay..