Somebody Buy Me A Drink-Oscar Brown Jr.

[ti:Somebody Buy Me A Drink] [ar:Oscar Brown Jr.] [al:Sin & Soul... And Then Some] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.55]Somebody Buy Me A Drink - Oscar Brown Jr. [00:02.18]Written by：O. Brown/Jr [00:03.23] [00:11.31]The other night I was on skid row [00:15.52] [00:16.66]By a liquor store sign's garish glow [00:20.48] [00:21.79]I saw a fellow I used to know a long long time ago [00:29.38] [00:32.18]He stood with the lost with the living dead [00:36.25] [00:37.38]With rumpled clothes and a reeling head [00:41.57] [00:42.51]Reviewing the wasted life he'd lead and as I passed he said [00:50.82] [00:52.63]Let me tell you a story that's sad but true [00:56.82] [00:57.78]About someone who just may remind you of you [01:02.05] [01:02.89]Let me tell you a tale that may help you awake a woozy head [01:08.91] [01:10.75]Somebody buy me a drink [01:13.31] [01:17.32]It begins long ago on a happy day [01:22.86] [01:23.61]With a fool who was loved but threw it all away [01:27.81] [01:28.71]Who exchanged a good home for a flop house a bar and a plank [01:34.50] [01:36.52]Somebody buy me a drink [01:38.90] [01:43.10]Well to see me today when I have hit the skids [01:48.17] [01:48.77]Who would think I once had a fine wife and kids [01:54.00] [01:54.60]Yes I was that fool after treasure and pleasure [01:59.15] [01:59.67]And love was just a game played with some other dame [02:04.07]Now there's only one thing I feel certain of [02:09.14] [02:09.89]The only true treasure in life is love [02:13.90] [02:14.90]Without someone to love and love you see how low you can sink [02:21.26] [02:22.67]Somebody buy me a drink [02:27.06] [02:31.13]Somebody somebody buy me a drink