Liquor Store - Uncle Lucius

Take me down to the liquor store now

I need my poison close at hand

Take me down to the liquor store now

The devil’s dealt me an idle hand

I was born on a train on the fourth of July

Bout the time that my dad died in Nam

Wasn’t given a chance or even a name

Spent a night in my sweet mama’s arms

Then she gave me away to a railyard bum

Who drank bourbon and walked with a limp

Been a riding these rails since I drew my first breath

Guess to die here would only seem fit

So won’t ya please now

Take me down to the liquor store now

I need my poison close at hand

Take me down to the liquor store now

The devil’s dealt me an idle hand

I put thirty-two grand on a horse named Believe

And the jockey fell off of it’s back

Now I’m really in deep with the shark this time

He’ll kill me for cuttin me slack

And my wife and my son are all I think about

And the pain is just too much to bear

So I’m searching for grace in the bottle tonight

Ever fearful of what’s drawing near

So mister please now

Take me down to the liquor store now

I need my poison close at hand

Take me down to the liquor store now

The devil’s dealt me an idle hand

Daddy hit her too hard on the days he was drunk

And quite often he’d touch her all wrong

So she grew up without a clue in the world

Just about what love really was

Now you’ll find her up town selling pleasure for cash

To only the worst kind of men

There’s a hole in her soul that she fills with a drink

And tonight she’ll cry out again

Won’t you please now

Take me down to the liquor store now

I need my poison close at hand

Take me down to the liquor store now

The devil’s dealt me an idle hand

Take me down to the liquor store now

I need my poison close at hand

Take me down to the liquor store now

The devil’s dealt me an idle hand