Teach 'Em How to Swim

Teach 'Em How to Swim - Hank Thompson/His Brazos Valley Boys

Babe 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

Oh 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