Alcohol and Pills-Todd Snider

[ti:Alcohol and Pills] [ar:Todd Snider] [al:East Nashville Skyline] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Alcohol and Pills - Todd Snider [00:16.33]Hank Williams he came up from Montgomery [00:20.91] [00:21.51]With a heart full of hard-luck country songs [00:26.15] [00:29.14]But Nashville Tennessee [00:32.62]They didn't understand him cause he did things [00:37.60] [00:38.35]Differently then the way they were done [00:42.22] [00:43.08]But when he finally made it to the Grand Ole Opry [00:46.73] [00:47.26]He made it stand still [00:49.53] [00:50.60]He ended up on alcohol and pills [00:55.06] [00:58.22]Evil Presely he came up from Jackson [01:04.21] [01:04.88]With a brand new way of singing [01:07.84] [01:08.73]A brand new way of dancing [01:11.29] [01:12.48]And even from the waist up he gave the world [01:17.61]A thrill he ended up on alcohol and pills [01:23.96] [01:27.01]Alcohol and pills [01:29.36] [01:30.33]It's a crying shame [01:33.04] [01:34.10]You'd think they might have been happy [01:36.41] [01:37.21]With the glory and the fame [01:39.93] [01:41.08]The fame don't take away the pain [01:44.76]It just pays the bills [01:47.13] [01:48.06]And you wind up on alcohol and pills [01:53.11] [01:55.90]Janis Joplin she was a wild and reckless [02:01.91] [02:02.91]Then there was Gram Parsons [02:05.62] [02:06.65]Then there was Jimmy Hendrix [02:09.16] [02:10.16]The story just goes on and on [02:13.67]I guess it always will they ended up on Alcohol and pills [02:22.01] [02:24.70]Alcohol and pills [02:27.16] [02:28.29]It's a crying shame [02:30.80] [02:31.83]You'd think they might have been happy [02:34.58] [02:35.18]With the glory and the fame [02:38.13] [02:39.06]The fame don't take away the pain [02:41.95] [02:42.63]It just pays the bills [02:44.87] [02:45.85]And you wind up on alchol and pills [02:50.81] [03:22.50]Sometimes somebody won't wake up one day [03:28.29] [03:29.62]Sometimes it's a heart attack [03:32.51] [03:33.23]Sometimes they won't say [03:35.39] [03:35.91]When they pulled poor old Hank Williams [03:39.46]Out of that Cadillac Coupe de Ville [03:42.61] [03:43.87]He ended up on alcohol and pills [03:48.15] [03:51.37]Alcohol and pills [03:53.55] [03:54.80]It's a crying shame [03:57.43] [03:58.45]You'd think they might have been happy [04:01.20] [04:01.77]With the glory and the fame [04:04.13] [04:05.67]The fame don't take away the fame [04:08.76] [04:09.27]It just pays the bills [04:11.32] [04:12.46]And you wind up on alcohol and pills [04:17.45] [04:20.13]On alcohol and pills