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Artist: 100 Monkeys
Canonical path: /100-monkeys/38-special
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38 Special
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38 Special
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Well I'm drinkin by myself
While everybody else
Sings songs down in the park
Brown paperbaggin it after dark
Well it's a plastic bag for me
Carrying my groceries
A few cans of champaign
Chose the highlife, for the rain
and the door man calls my name
Good old Joe sure knows my game
Well he says its the youth to blame
I cant say I feel the same
See I been nursin number one
And too soon beer two is done
And it's three four five six
And their all empty again
And theres still half the flask
I always forget I have
Sittin in my office
With my .38 special revolver
Still half the flask
I always forget I have
Sittin in my office
With my .38 special revolver
Sittin in my office with my .38 special revolver (x4)
Lookin back
Through another empty glass
To the past
When I was so small
Peekin over a counter
That was too tall
Stealin my first sip
Of alcohol
This could be my last slug
Of it all
Still half the flask
I always forget I have
Sittin in my office
With my .38 special revolver
Still half the flask
I always forget I have
Sittin in my office
With my .38 special revolver
Sittin in my office with my .38 special revolver (x8)
And if the dead haunt the places their bodies are found
Chamber me, one last round to see
If my luck will keep, if my luck will keep
Oh yes chamber me, one last round to see
If my luck will keep this gun company
Drinkin by myself
While everybody else
Is passed out in the park
Or goin home in police cars
They sing
Oh la a da
Oh la tada da
Oh la ta da
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Oh la ta da da
Oh la ta da
Oh la ta da da
Oh la ta da da
Oh la ta da da
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