One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

You stay at my place

Why? Let me stash it here

I wanna tell you a story

About the house-man blues

I come home one Friday

Had to tell the landlady I'da lost my job

She said that don't confront me

Long as I get my money next Friday

Now next Friday come I didn't get the rent

And out the door I went

So I goes to the landlady

I said you let me slide?

I'll have the rent for you in a month

Next, I don't know

So said let me slide it on, you know people

I notice when I come home in the evening

She ain't got nothing nice to say to me

But for five year, she was so nice

Loh' she was lovey-dovey

I come home one particular evening

The landlady said, "You got the rent money yet?"

I said "No, can't find no job"

Therefore, I got no money to pay the rent

She said, "I don't believe you're tryin' to find no job"

Said "I seen you today, you was standin' on a corner"

Leaning up against a post

I said, "But I'm tired"

I've been walkin' all day

She said that don't confront me

Long as I get my money next Friday

Now next Friday come I didn't have the rent

And out the door I went

So I go down the streets

Down to my good friend's house

I said "Look man, I'm outdoors you know"

Can I stay with you, maybe a couple days?

He said, "Uh, let me go and ask my wife"

He come out of the house

I could see it in his face

I know that was no

He said "I don't know man, ah she kinda funny, you know"

I said "I know, everybody funny, now you funny too"

So I go back home

I tell the landlady, "I got a job, I'm gonna pay the rent"

She said "Yeah? I said oh, yeah"

And then she was so nice

Loh' she was lovey-dovey

So I go in my room

Pack up my things and I go

I slip on out the back door

And down the streets I go

She a-howlin' about the front rent

She'll be lucky to get any back rent

She ain't gonna get none of it

So I stop in the local bar, you know people

I go to the bar, I ring my coat

I call the bartender

Said "Look man, come down here"

He got down there

So what you want?

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer

Well I ain't seen my baby

Since I don't know when

I've been drinking bourbon, whiskey

Scotch and gin

Gonna get high man, I'm gonna get loose

Need me a triple shot of that juice

I'm gonna get drunk, don't you have no fear

I want one bourbon

One scotch and one beer

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer

But I'm sitting now, at the bar

I'm getting drunk, I'm feelin' mellow

I'm drinkin' bourbon

I'm drinkin' scotch

I'm drinkin' beer

Looked down the bar

Here come the bartender

I said, "Look man, come down here"

So what you want?

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer

No, I ain't seen my baby since the night before last

Gotta get a drink, man, I'm gonna get gassed

Gonna get high man, I ain't had enough

Need me a triple shot of that stuff

Gonna get drunk

Won't you listen right here

I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer

Well, all that

Yeah

Scratch my back, baby, ah

Now

Now by this time, I'm plenty high

You know when your mouth a-getting dry

You're plenty high

Looked down the bar

I say to my bartender

I said, "Look man, come down here"

He got down there

So what you want this time?

I said look man

Ay, what time is it?

He said "The clock on the wall say three o'clock"

Last call for alcohol

So what you need?

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer

No, I ain't seen my baby since a night and a week

I gotta get drunk man till I can't even speak

Gonna get high man, listen to me

One drink ain't enough

Jack, you better make it three

I wanna to get drunk

I'm gonna make it real clear

I want one bourbon

One scotch and one beer

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer