Drinkin' Days - Slaid Cleaves

My drinking days are over

No more nights at the Carousel

My buddies say they’re gonna miss me but

Who could ever tell

I never knew what time it was

Til closing time came round

My drinking days are over

But I’m still troublebound

I used to hang at the Horseshoe

You’d see me spinning at the Broken Spoke

I’d take my gal to The Gaslight

We lived on whiskey and smoke

Don’t know how it all started

Didn’t mean to hurt no one

Some bad luck and what’s done can’t be undone

Well it was way past midnight

Anetta hollered out last call

I turned around and Wranglin' Ron

Was headed for a brawl

I didn’t know that other guy was a cop

I guess I didn’t care

Sometime you gotta act like you gotta pair

My drinking days are over…

I got a ride out to Huntsville

I’ll be there for a while

Staring out a mesh window

Mile after mile

I don’t have any regrets, well

Maybe just a few

A man’s gonna do what he’s gonna do

My drinking days are over…