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Intro
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Living on bread and wine was easy
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for John and James and Mother Mary
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and I'm no saint and that's my ball and chain
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Cause when I'm passed that silver challis
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I always drink my fill until it
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knocks me down and tangles up my brain
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Yeah buddy, it's a short life, it's a hell of a life
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it's a mean old world, when you're kicked to the gutter
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and the firewater is the one thing to put out the flame
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Walking through the graveyards and sleeping in alleys
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telling myself the same old stories
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Drinking that blood and calling it holy wine
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Looking in windows and seeing a stranger
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going through hell like a fallen angel
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Feeling my bones getting old long before their time
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Yeah buddy, it's a short life, it's a hell of a life
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it's a mean old world, when you're kicked to the gutter
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and the firewater gotcha talking in circles again
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It's an empty bottle passing around
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when your hopes and dreams have all burned down
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and the firewater is the one thing to put out the flame
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Take me home, take me home
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Gather me up in your arms Lord have mercy divine
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So take me home, take me home
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Take me home, take me home
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Cause it's a short life, it's a hell of a life,
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it's a mean old world when your kicked to the gutter
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and the firewater is the one thing to put out the flame
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Yeah, the firewater is the one thing to put out the flame