Somebody Buy Me a Drink (Remastered 2019) Lyrics
Somebody Buy Me a Drink - Oscar Brown, Jr.
Written by：O. Brown/Jr
The other night I was on skid row
By a liquor store sign's garish 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 flop house 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