Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Somebody by Me a Drink, artist - Oscar Brown, Jr.. Album song Between Heaven & Hell + Sin & Soul, in the genre R&B
Date of issue: 30.10.2017
Record label: Yeah Mama
Song language: English
Somebody by Me a Drink |
The other night, I was on Skid Row |
By a liquor store sign’s garrish glow; |
I saw a fellow I used to know a long, long time ago |
He stood with the lost, with the living dead |
With rumpled clothes and a reeling head |
Reviewing the wasted life he’d lead, and as I passed he said |
«Let me tell you a story that’s sad but true |
About someone who just may remind you of you |
Let me tell you a tale that may help you awake a woozy head — |
Somebody buy me a drink |
«It begins long ago on a happy day |
With a fool who was loved, but threw it all away |
Who exchanged a good home for a flophouse, a bar and a plank — |
Somebody buy me a drink |
(Bridge:) |
«Well, to see me today, when I have hit the skids |
Who would think I once had a fine wife and kids? |
Yes, I was that fool, after treasure and pleasure |
And love was just a game played with some other dame |
«Now there’s only one thing I feel certain of: |
The only true treasure in life is love |
Without someone to love and love you, see how low you can sink? |
Somebody buy me a drink |
Somebody, somebody, buy me a drink.» |