Somebody Buy Me A Drink

Somebody Buy Me A Drink - Oscar 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