Honky Red - Murray McLaughlin (E)

[INTRO]
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[VERSE 1]
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I ain't got no back porch
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I ain't got a rocking chair
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I got a dirty old coat I got shaky hands
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And a face like a grizzly bear
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I'm an old wino and I scare all the ladies
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Yeah you might say that I'm a bum
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But I'm sure wired up to the Honky Red
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And that good Gold Anchor rum
 
[CHORUS]
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            When I need a drink I'm stains on a sink
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            I'm please and thank you ma'am
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            But when I got a head full of Honky Red
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            I don't give no good goddamn
 
[VERSE 2]
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I fought in your wars now I sleep in your doors
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An' I left my leg in France
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All that remains is a ghostly pain
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When the mornings get too damp
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I come from the styx I got grade six
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And I ain't much in demand.
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I deliver hand bills and I steal red pills
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From the boys in the whorehouse band
 
[CHORUS]

[VERSE 3]
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I've got me a little girl that I see sometimes
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She's damn near half a ton
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In a furnished room in the Joyceville pen
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I got me a no good son
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But I'll keep me a head full of Honky Red
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'til the reaper tolls the bell
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If I'm as high when I die as I was when I lived
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I'll be in heaven as sure as hell
 
[CHORUS] X2
 
[OUTRO]
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