The Green Pajamas

PASS ME ANOTHER WHISKEY


Listen to me Beth of a tale I’ll tell of drinking and sinking into debt
Mary packed, she ain’t coming back, my heart is black and dead
   Pass me another whisky, Beth 
   Hand me another cigarette
   I might die in this tavern tonight
   Don’t try to tell me anybody cares

When the wood mill closed I got to drinking - 
Not thinking it would ever come to this
And I prayed to Saint Paul: “I’ll change it all if you let me do it over again”
   Pass me another whisky, Beth 
   Hand me another cigarette
   I might die in this tavern tonight
   Don’t try to tell me anybody cares
	
Now Beth, you knew I loved her through and through 
And I thought she too would know
And if I got a little mean it was the devil in me -not me- that made her go
   Pass me another whisky, Beth 
   Hand me another cigarette
   I might die in this tavern tonight
   Don’t try to tell me anybody cares

Oh, Beth, you’re so very sweet and very kind to me
And you’re so very, very pretty
But do me a favor - save your labor and just listen to me 

Listen to me Beth of a tale I’ll tell of drinking and sinking into debt

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by Jeff Kelly
(c) 2011 St. Brigid Publishing BMI