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Artist: Willie Nelson
Canonical path: /willie-nelson/i-gotta-get-drunk
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I Gotta Get Drunk
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I Gotta Get Drunk
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Well I gotta get drunk and I sure do dread it cause I know just what I'm gonna do
I'll start to spend my money call evrybody honey and wind up singing the blues
I'll spend my whole paycheck on some old wreck and brother I can name you a few
But I gotta get drunk and I sure do dread it cause I know just what I'm gonna do
I gotta get drunk I just can't stay sober there's a lot of good people in town
Who'd like to hear me holler see me spend my dollars
And I wouldn't think of lettin' 'em down
There's a lot of doctors that tell me that I'd better start slowin' it down
But there's more old drunkers than there are old doctors
So I guess we'd better have another round
Well now I gotta get drunk...
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Well I gotta get drunk...
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Willie Nelson performs "I Gotta Get Drunk", and this lyric page sits inside the Willie Nelson catalog on LyroVerse.
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