Corner Bar Blues

Corner Bar Blues
By Liz Mandeville

© Elizebeth Mandville Greeson pka Liz Mandeville
Published 2008 Earwig Music Company, Inc.

You spent all night drinkin’ at the corner bar
Well, you spent all night just drinkin’ at the corner bar
They closed the place and now you can’t find your car

Spent a half an hour just stumbling up and down the street
Half an hour, just staggerin’ up and down the street
With your head on fire and lead in both your feet

Finally found it half way down the block
Finally found it half way down the block
Well, you stick and stab but your key won’t fit the lock

Scottie bought a round, Howard bought a shot
Said you was leavin’ then the dice got hot
Dave sent you a Jaeger, you sent him a beer
Ya said you were leavin’ but you’re still right here

Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do?
Well it ain’t nothin’ new, you got the corner bar blues

You get behind the wheel and you’re drivin’ with one eye closed
Get behind the wheel and you’re drivin’ with one eye closed
Just running up the curb and blowin’ all over the road

In the rearview mirror there’s cherries screamin’ blue and red
(Uh Oh) In the rearview mirror cherries screamin’ blue and red
Yeah, you wake up in jail with a fine and an achin’ head

The judge says, “I can’t let you drive no more.
You know, you blew so high you had a lethal score.
I know that you didn’t rob or steal.
But it’s a crime what you do behind the wheel.”

Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do?
Well it ain’t nothin’ new, you got the corner bar blues

Spent all night just drinkin’ at the corner bar
Well, you spent all night, drinking at the corner bar
Call him a cab bartender, he don’t drive no more