Now he was a wino tried and true Done about everything there is to do He worked on freighters and he worked in bars He worked on farms and he worked on
Pack up all the dishes Make a note of all good wishes Say goodbye to the landlord for me All you know he always bored me And throw out all those L.A.
Oh the beautiful red-haired Madonna with child Sat on the curb wearin' a smile That doubled up the years And trebled the miles And comforts the babe In
Chorus The only difference between men and boys Is the size of their feet and the price of their toys Always horsin' around makin' too much noise
Hooray for the drinkin' warm red wine On a day both bright and fair Hooray for the layin' and playin' a tune On the sunlight through your hair, your hair
I like drinking whiskey, I like being straight I like a voodoo spinners and I like live bait I like a hundred miles an hour, I like Sunday driving too
Black Diamond Strings This Black Diamond Strings Drinkin? 1 W. Harper Playin? Black Diamond Strings Black Diamond Strings Are like white flour and grits
At the broken heart ranch You can always get work As a cowfool There's feelin's to wrangle Loose ends to untangle and tie Sun up to sundown Ridin' herd
But he's a black haired boy of some confusion He makes no excuse for the things that he's usin' And he's gentle and wild, a child of the mountain His
Sorry 'bout your mama Sorry 'bout your paa Sorry 'bout the business With your brother-in-law Hard cheese about the money man Hard cheese about the stock
William Butler Yeats in jeans Got up to play guitar and sing In some join in Mission Beach last night At the door sat Tom Waits In a pork pie hat and
I had a friend named Bill Campbell He used to rob, steal and gamble And on the side he'd beg So he mopped up Well, I told ol' Billy shouldn't do it And
Broken hearted people always seem to drink Tryin' to drown those sorrows, it ain't as easy as you think Living with a liar is a hard old way to go Laughin
Well, I don't love you much, do I Just more than human tongue can tell and that's all I don't love you much, do I Remember how I kissed you in the hall
I rolled off the San Francisco mint in 1909 The last one they ever made, you should've seen me shine When I landed on the counter they gave me to a
Now he washed all the road dirt From his face and from his neck Sat down at her table And she picked up his check And she took him home for reasons That
Lawdy mercy land of Goshen Shades of gray out on the ocean Don't you dare take that boat out to sea For the high seas are runnin' You will sure enough
Hear that old tune come driftin' down the hall Trying to put a stop to clock on the wall Free flowin' free flown Lord mama how that old thief time carries