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Brew the coffee in a bucket |
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Double straight man and banjo |
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If you don't got the snake oil |
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Buster, you don't got a show |
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Who puts the do re me in our pockets |
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Keeps the party goin' on? |
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It's the man who sells the potions |
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I'm just the one who plays the songs |
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Now they generally buys |
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The bigger size |
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They usually rub it in |
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I drank it once, it tasted |
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Like grease and paraffin |
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It's mostly alcohol, okay |
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You can't deny it's strong |
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We was goin' through the motions |
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'Til the doctor came along |
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There stands the bottle |
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Ladies and gentlemen |
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All these bottles |
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Don't have to tell you, friends |
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These days miracles |
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Don't come fallin' from the sky |
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Raise your glasses to the doctor |
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To a stand up guy |
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When the monkey shine is flyin' |
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And he's promisin' the cure |
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He says the French for your lovesick blues |
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La maladie d'amour |
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He gets the chumps all laughin' |
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But he gets a few to buy |
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Here's a beefsteak when you're hungry |
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And whiskey when you're dry |
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Now the band'll blow their moolah |
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Like sailors gone ashore |
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Now we're goin' to West Helena |
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To gamble, drink and whore |
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Let's you and me all make whoopee |
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Here's mud in your eye |
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Here's to all the gals he ever want |
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And Heaven when you die |
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And there stands the bottle |
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Ladies and gentlemen |
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All these bottles |
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Don't have to tell you, friends |
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These days miracles |
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Don't come fallin' from the sky |
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Raise your glasses to the doctor |
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To a stand up guy |
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There's a big cheese with a cigar |
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Been sizin' up the show |
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He wants to get the doctor |
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Pitchin' on the radio |
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I will make a switch to guitar |
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But the rules all still apply |
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They want to trust somebody |
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Yeah, they want a stand up guy |
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There stands the bottle |
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Here's to absent friends |
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All these bottles |
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Dead soldiers in the end |
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These days miracles |
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Don't come fallin' on from the sky |
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Raise your glasses to the doctor |
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To a stand up guy |
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To the doctor |
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A stand up guy |