Sailing takes me away to where I’ve always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free
I was told
We’d cruise the seas for American gold
We’d fire no guns, shed no tears
But I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett’s Privateers
Avarice and greed
Are gonna drive you over the endless sea
They will leave you drifting in the shallows
Or drowning in the oceans of history
Filling up my pockets, even stuffed it up my nose
I must have weighed a hundred tons between my head and toes
I ventured forth before the dawn had time to change its mind
And soaring high above the clouds I found a golden shrine
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
She was really bombed
And I was really blown away
Until I asked her what she wanted
And this is what she had to say:
A pearl necklace
She want a pearl necklace
Leather and Lace, Denim and Pearls,
Whiskey and Wine,
They go just fine,
Like you and me, girl…
Will you have whiskey with your water
Or sugar with your tea
What are these crazy questions
That they’re asking of me
This is the craziest party
That there ever could be
Oh, don’t turn on the light
'Cause I don’t want to see
Whiskey River don’t run dry,
Whiskey River take care of me…
(Happy birthday Willie:))!!!
Whiskey woman, don’t you know that you are drivin’ me insane?
The liquor you give stems your will to live and gets right to my brain
Don’t you know you’re driving me insane?
Crazy for crying,
Crazy for trying,
Crazy for loving you…
It happens all the time
This crazy love of mine
Wrapped around my heart
Refusing to unwind
Mephistopheles is not your name
I know what you’re up to just the same
I will listen hard to your tuition
You will see it come to its fruition
I’ll be wrapped around your finger
I’ll be wrapped around your finger
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I’m in need of some restraint
I turned 21 in prison doing life with-out parole…
Well, if they freed me from this prison
If that railroad train was mine
I bet I’d move it on a little
Farther down the line
Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train
You never even call me by name…
(You ninja’d me! I was thinking that very song as I was drivng)
Like the pine trees lining the winding road
I got a name, I got a name
Like the singing bird and the croaking toad
I got a name, I got a name
And I carry it with me like my daddy did
But I’m living the dream that he kept hid
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game