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Better I Don't

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Better I Don't

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My good buddy asked me, "buddy why don't you drink?"

And I said, "it's probably better I don't"

He said, "there's a lotta girls in this here bar that we could chase"

I said, "trust me, it's probably better I don't"

Cause I used to be an all nighter

I'm a hell of a back slider

I've been around the block more than a time or two

And I can promise you

I've drank my weight in booze

And I've been known to get on stage in nothing but my boots

So it's better I don't, cause believe me I will

I get looser than a line on a fishing reel

Dare me don't do, don't think I won't,

Take it all off, turn it all on

Get buck wild, hell bent, and stoned.

It's better I don't

Well I was wearing the cuffs, when the warden said,

"Just tell me the truth"

And I said, "sir, it's probably better I don't"

And I was up on the stand, and the judge said,

"Just tell me what happened man"

And I said, "buddy it's probably better I don't, but since you asked"

I was mindin' my own business at a hundred and five

I was a county road cruisin', out running the blue lights

I was on the home stretch,

I was roundin' that last curve,

Well I ran out of gas and that's when I learn

It's better I don't, cause believe me I will

I get looser than a line on a fishing reel

Dare me don't do, don't think I won't,

Take it all off, turn it all on

Get buck wild, hell bent, and stoned.

It's better I don't

Now there's things I don't remember,

There's things that I do

But I don't know the half of what I got into

And it's better I don't, cause believe me I will

I get looser than a line on your fishing reel

Dare me don't do, don't think I won't

Take it all off, turn it all on

Get buck wild, hell bent, and stoned.

Drunk dial somebody on the phone

Drink too many beers and drive a harley home

It's better I don't,

Yeah, it's better I don't

Yeah, it's better I don't

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