Whiskey Fever

Got a whiskey-drinking fever that I cannot shake

And those girls downtown are more than I can take

High-waisted rockies and the sailor's mouths

And the boys in the back of the bar screaming loud

Oh, whiskey river, take me home

And I smell like cologne and cigarettes

But I ain't found a lady or a bar fight yet

I'll wait around just to stir shit up

That whiskey river flowing ain't ever enough

Oh, whiskey river, take me home

'Cause I'm a heavy-drinking, hard-hitting good ol' boy

There ain't a man in this county that can keep me employed

Can't stay sober past 11:00 A.M.

My breath smells like my regrets again

Oh, whiskey river, take me home

I had a woman in Wisconsin and a woman in Maine

But they told me that they'd never love a man so insane

I head to Oklahoma with the flask and a comb

Do my best to find another place I can roam

Oh, whiskey river, take me home

There was no one in town that would give me a ride

So I waited for my heavy drunkenness to subside

Stole a pick-up truck from a gas station pump

I pray to the Lord for a run of good luck

Oh, whiskey river, take me home

Yeah

And I was four hundred miles down Highway 10

All of a sudden I was arrested again

They told me eight years in the county pen

Or eight years in the army killing evil men

Oh, whiskey river, take me home

Now there's sand in my boots

Sand in my eyes

Sand everywhere that sand can hide

How I miss those downtown girls

And that whiskey river that ruined my world

Oh, Uncle Sam, I wanna go home

I had a whiskey-drinking fever that I could not shake

And those girls downtown were more than I could take

The high-waisted rockies and the sailor's mouths

Boys in the back of the bar screaming loud

Oh, whiskey river, take me home

Oh, whiskey river, I wanna go home