THIS DRINKING WILL KILL ME

THIS DRINKING WILL KILL ME

This drinking will kill me but I don't know when

It isn't doing now like it didn't do then

But when my time comes I'll just lay back and sigh

Finish my bottle and kiss it goodbye

This old town has left me to drink all alone

The rats are my friends and the street is my home

It took the shoes off my feet and the shirt off my back

This old town has left and I don't want it back

This drinking will kill me but I don't know when

It isn't doing now like it didn't do then

But when my time comes I'll just lay back and sigh

Finish my bottle and kiss it goodbye

The girl that I married a few years ago

Packed all her things in a cab to Heathrow

She said she could not stand this drinking of mine

Now she's a dancer of Sunset and Vine

My dad was a gambler, my mom was a thief

They died in the eighties quietly in their sleep

My dad held the bottle, mom held the glass

I'll see them in heaven I'm heading their fast

This drinking will kill me but I don't know when

It isn't doing now like it didn't do then

But when my time comes I'll just lay back and sigh

Finish my bottle and kiss it goodbye

Finish my bottle and kiss it goodbye

Kiss it goodbye

Kiss it goodbye

Kiss it goodbye

Kiss it goodbye