Teach 'Em How to Swim

Teach 'Em How to Swim - Hank Thompson

Babe you got me up a tree a

Way out on a limb

You told me lies you let me on

Then turned me down for him

You took my heart tore it all

Apart and then threw it away

And now that it's all over

Babe here's all I can say

Oh take my glass fill it

Up fill it to the brim

If I can't drown my troubles babe

I'll teach 'em how to swim

If I can't teach 'em how to swim

I'll teach 'em how to float

So please just pass one more

Glass to please my dusty throat

Grandpa's swallowed his first

Drink when he was only eight

The doctor warned him then

And there to stop before it was too late

But grandpa was a real strong

Man he wouldn't heed the plea

Now he's done drink hisself to

Death he died at ninety-three

So since my grandpa lived so long

I want to be like him

If I can't drown my troubles babe

I'll teach 'em how to swim

So here I sit in this old bar

My future's looking dim

If I can't drown my troubles babe

I'll teach 'em how to swim

Oh take my glass fill

It up fill it to the brim

If I can't drown my troubles babe

I'll teach 'em how to swim

If I can't teach 'em how to swim

I'll teach 'em how to float

So please just pass one more

Glass to please my dusty throat