Chords for Boxcar Willie & Harland Powell - Drunk Sketch

[G] The old hometown
What's the song?
[Am] _
[Bm] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
Ernie
What's _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ the big idea of going back there and getting drunker than a dog?
I'm not a dog
What a fed
I got me a new dog the other day
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
What kind of a dog is it? _ _ _ _
He's a plain old dog, but he's got a problem
What do you mean he's got a problem?
What's his problem?
He don't have any legs
Your [F] dog ain't got no legs?
No [E] legs
[Bb] Can he do any tricks?
[N] Yeah, he can roll over
He _ just can't stop _
_ _ What _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ did you [Bb] name your dog?
He don't have a name
I [Gm] didn't name him
You didn't give your dog a name?
No Why?
Well [N] he couldn't come to me for college
He's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ an old dog _
_ Well what do you do with your dog?
Well I get up every morning and put him on a leash
Put him on a leash?
Why do you do that?
He's not for drugs
Listen, _ _ [Ab]
I want to know what's the meaning [Bb] of you getting drunk?
I don't want to sing, you won't [N] let me
Sing?
Of course I ain't going to let you sing.
They don't want to hear no drunk sing No
Well _ _ _ _ the only reason they applauded, they just wanted me to pacify you Well
_ Get you a guitar, I'll pacify you
_ _ Boy, [D] how embarrassing can you get?
[Ab] _ _ [G] _ Oh no
_ [N]
Why are you singing it wrong anyway?
_ I'll have you know I sang this song just the way Porter Wagner recorded it
That ain't the way I [Bb] wrote it
You _ wrote this [E] song?
I did, I wrote it down
On a piece [N] of paper
The _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] old hometown
[D] Looks [G] upside down
_ [Gm] When you're [C] laying _ [F]
[G] on the ground
There's the old freight train
That I chose
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
[E] _ Down the [G] lane
[D] I look [Gbm] [G] and my love runs [C] messy
_ _ Oh but [F] she's [C] kind of messy
_ [G] When you're [Em] laying in [D] the green green grass
[Ab] _ [G] The _ [N] _
_ _ [Em] _ [N] _ _ _ _
old freight train
Makes you think good of the top of me
Where'd you get this?
I never leave home without it _ _
Harlan, you can't drink in front of these nice people
Well I can drink with them
They don't want to drink with you, [Ab] besides Oh _ _
[N] Mercy
Oh _ My goodness
_ _ _ [Eb] Oh
You can't drink this [N] stuff
_ Oh _ _ _
God damn it Why _ not? _
_ _ _ _ This stuff is very dangerous to your health
Oh, why do you know that?
_ Well it is
_ Tell you what
I'm going to give you a little demonstration
And I'll bet you never take another drink
As long as you live
Well I think probably
Well I guess maybe
Even though I thought Sometimes
Now I guess maybe
I don't know man
I don't get too much
I _ _ had to go all the way back by car Over there
By the time I got back Well I I don't
I don't know
_ _ _ I don't _ _ know
_ I don't know man I don't I don't _ Okay
_ _ Ain't _ _ _ that
Ain't that one of Ronald Reagan's old speeches? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Look
Take two water glasses
Two water glasses
Fill one up with this old nasty whiskey
Okay, let's drink it
No we ain't going to drink it
Fill the other water glass up with good old pure water
Old pure water, okay
I'll take an ordinary worm Ordinary worm
_ Put the little worm in the water
Put it in the water
Look at it I see He's sour He's swimming Yeah He's healthy
He's happy and gay
Oh he's happy
He's not going to ever Ever
Once he started to crawl
Then he [Bm] was All the
_ [N] Gay
You _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mean the wild worm?
_ _ _ _ _ _ I'll _ _ _ _ take a little worm out of the water
Get him out of the water
Put him in the whiskey
Put him in the whiskey
Now look at him
He's drinking my whiskey
_ _ _ He took one sip and he's dead Dead?
Yes he's dead
Now what does that prove to you?
Prove to me
_ Personally, there's one good drink in whiskey That's right
I won't ever have [G] one No!
_ _ _ [D] _