24 Hours a Day

Well I got hooked on whiskey

It was a terrible thing

I just didn't dream the truth

Like swinging on a swing

I was flying high - I was flying high

I didn't want to come back down

Didn't even wonder why

Whiskey first thing in the morning

Whiskey last thing at night

Put the whiskey here by the bed

God don't turn out the lights

I'm flying high

Don't even want to come back down for you

Let me go swinging - swinging in my booze

I lived by singing and playing

With booze it didn't work so good

My hands began to shake so bad

My head was made out of wood

I was flying high - flying high to the moon

I didn't want to come back down

Anyway not too soon

When I began to notice

't was already too late

My health had really gone to hell

I hardly slept or ate

I was flying high - thought I was doing good

Couldn't even count to ten

And my body hardly stood

Well I still thought things were a-swinging

Couldn't even get out of bed

Then they took me to the hospital

Where they gave me up for dead

I was flying high - thought I was doing good

Didn't want to come back down

And wouldn't have if I could

Somehow we got me through it all

A chance in a million they say

Hope none of you ever'll make that scene

It's sure a nowhere way

You think you're flying high - You think you're doing good

You might not want to come back down

Probably wouldn't if you could

There are angels up in heaven

Devils down in hell

But I am somewhere in between

And living sure feels swell

I'm feeling fine I'm feeling fine

I don't know how or where or when

But I am feeling fine