Somebody Buy Me A Drink Composer(s): Oscar Brown Jr. Performer(s): Oscar Brown Jr. and multiple other artists
The other night, I was on Skid Row By a liquor store sign's garrish glow I saw a fellow I used to know a long, long time ago
He stood with the lost, with the living dead With rumpled clothes and a reeling head Reviewing the wasted life he'd lead, and as I passed he said
"Let me tell you a story that's sad but true About someone who just may remind you of you Let me tell you a tale that may help you awake a woozy head Somebody buy me a drink
"It begins long ago on a happy day With a fool who was loved, but threw it all away Who exchanged a good home for a flophouse, a bar and a plank Somebody buy me a drink
"Well, to see me today, when I have hit the skids Who would think I once had a fine wife and kids? Yes, I was that fool, after treasure and pleasure And love was just a game played with some other dame
"Now there's only one thing I feel certain of The only true treasure in life is love Without someone to love and love you, see how low you can sink? Somebody buy me a drink Somebody, somebody, buy me a drink"
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