Gambling Barroom Blues

Hoho-heyhey, the gamblin' bar room blues

I went down to the corner just to meet my girl

I found her standing on the sidewalk talking to my pal

I stroke back to the bar room to get another drink of gin

But the first thing I knew I was really, rocking and drunk again

I kept drinking gin and liquor till way up in the night

With my pal walked into the bar room we had an awfull fight

I reached down for my razor, and then we knocked around

But when I pulled my pistol I quickly smoked him down

Heyhee-heyho, ho-hoohoo

Hoo-oo-hoo-oo, hoo-ho, ho-hey-ho

I went down to see my baby, and met her on the way

I told her I'd have to leave her, I told her I could not stay

I started down to the station and stopped in at the bar

There I met a policeman ridin' in a motor car

We both drank lots of liquor, that flatfooted cop and I

I thought he would never leave me, Lord, I thought I die

My baby came in to join us, and then it began to rain

Then I had to hurry-hurry to catch that midnight train

I laid my head in the bar room door, I 'll never get drunk anymore

I pawn my watch and my golden chain, I pawn my baby's diamond ring

Police, police, police, you're just as drunk as me

I'll grab that old eight-wheeler and make for the deep blue sea