Song Description

What happens when you take too many swigs of rotgut.

Lyrics

Well, I'll eat when I'm hungry - I'll drink when I'm dry.
If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die.
Oh whiskey, you villain - you've been my downfall.
You've kicked me and cuffed me but I'll love you for all.

I've gambled for whiskey, I hustled for wine.
Some 10,000 bottles I've killed in my time.
Sometimes I drink brandy, sometimes I drink rum.
But most times I drink whiskey just to make sure I'm drunk.

If the ocean was whiskey, and I was a drunk
I'd dive to the bottom and never come up.
But the ocean ain't whiskey and I ain't a duck.
Still I sit here and daydream and top off my cup.

Her momma don't like me, she says I'm too poor.
She says I'm unworthy to walk through her door.
So I'll drink my own whiskey and I'll make my own stew.
And if I get drunk dear madam, it's nothing to you.

Now I've no wife to quarrel, no babies to bawl.
And the best way of living, is no wife at all.
I left her for whiskey now my money's my own.
But I'm as drunk as the devil so just leave me alone.