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Nadia Cripps and Bill White - Sad Beyond Words

from Drinking songs for Sober Drunks by Bill White

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Stumble down, you 59ers
Into your early graves
No more shall you be drinking
What in life you craved

Here is a final shot of bourbon
Wash it down with a glass of beer
This is the last glass you will be raising
You will not see your 60th year

Alone in your special sadness
Your life has never been in balance
Yours is the song of the songless bird
A sadness beyond words

Stumble down, my departed sister
It is not such a long way down
In your life, you have fallen futher
Than a ghost in a ghost town

The spirits took you higher
Than a rocket to the moon
Why did nobody warn you
You would be dying soon

Alone in your special sadness
Your life has never been in balance
Yours is the song of the songless bird
A sadness beyond words

Stumble down, my dear old daddy
Down the banks of the River Styx
You are the last of your battalion
The Last of the Bastardly Six

It was down by the Cedar River
That I was hit by a speeding car
I was crossing the avenue
To pull you out of that stinking bar

We were off to do some fishing
Me with my bear claws, you with your beer
But you left me on the roadside
Now Im waiting for you here

So stumble down, you 59ers
Into your early graves
No more shall you be wallowing
In the rotgut that you craved

Sad beyond words

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from Drinking songs for Sober Drunks, released December 15, 2019
©2019 Nadia Cripps and Bill White
Music and piano Nadia Cripps
Lyrics and vocal Bill White

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