Drunkard's Blues

Drunkard's Blues - Hank Thompson/His Brazos Valley Boys

Walking slow to the graveyard

I've lost everything I could lose

Now I've even lost my baby

I guess I've got the drunkard's blues

It was down at Big Joe's

Barroom on the corner beyond the square

Everybody drinkin' good liquor

The regular crowd was there

So I strolled out on the sidewalk

Began to look around

Looking everywhere for my baby

But that sweet woman can't be found

It was down at St James infirmary

I found my baby there

Stretched out on a long white

Table so cold so pale so fair

So I strolled back down to the barroom

To get another drink of gin

The next thing you know

I'm reeling rocking and drunk again

Sixteen coal black horses

All hitched up in a line

In that pretty buggy she's ridin'

Goodbye ol' gal of mine

Walking slow to the graveyard

I've lost everything I could lose

Now I've even lost my baby

I guess I've got the drunker's blues