Chords for Loudon Wainwright III - Drinking Song

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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ Drunk men [Dm] stagger, drunk men [A] fall, drunk men [Dm] swear, and that's not all.
[C#m] Quite often, they will urinate [A] outdoors. _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ Like widowed [Dm] women, drunk men [A] weep, like [Dm] children curled up.
Drunk men [C#m] sleep like a dog, a drunk will crawl [A] around on all _ _ _ fours.
[D] Be he broke bum or rich rake, [Dm] his dinner be it bread or cake.
[G] His beverage be the worst of whiskey, _ [A] finest wine.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [A] _ _ Puke, it [Dm] stinks, and so it [A] seems that drunkards [Dm] go to great extremes.
[C#m] _ But there is yet to be a [A] perfectly _ _ _ [Dm]
straight _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Dm] line.
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ Drunks [Dm] talk strong when drunks [A] are weak.
It's easy [Dm]
for a drunk to [C#m] speak _ _ _ _ _ [A] straight from the heart. _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Dm] Drunks will fight, they're not [A] afraid, they'll kiss the mistress, make the [C#m] maid. _ _
_ _ [A] A manly _ art, _ but the drink, the toll will [D] take.
Blood [Dm] vessels in the nose will _ break.
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Bags beneath the [A] eyes, another _ [Dm] sign.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Dm] Drunks get ugly, so it [A] seems that drunkards [Dm] go to great extremes.
[C#m] _ But there is yet to be a [A] perfectly straight _ _
[Dm] line.
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[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ Drunks [Dm] are friendly when they're [A] drunk, and drunks are [Dm] hostile when they're drunk.
[C#m] Which drunk it is, it all [A] depends upon. _
_ _ _ _ _ When drunks aren't drunk, they thirst for drink.
Elephants are gray, not [C#m] pink.
The drink _ _ evaporates, [A] the man is _ gone.
_ Back to the [D] yachts and subway _ cars, [Dm] to the hip flasks and fruit _ [G] jars. _
Flat on the face, flat [A] on the behind.
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Drunks [Dm] get drunk, and so it [A] seems that [Dm] drunkards go to great _ [C#m] extremes.
But there is yet to be a [A] perfectly _ _
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