MISERY AND GIN
(Johnny Durrill / Tommy "Snuff" Garrett)

Merle Haggard - 1980
Billy Dean - 1994
Eddie Spaghetti - 2003


Memories and drinks don't mix too well
And jukebox records don't play those wedding bells
Starin' at the world through the bottom of a glass
All I see is a man who's fading fast

Toight I need that woman again
What I'd give for my baby to just walk in
Sit down beside me and say it's alright
Take me home and make sweet love to me tonight

But here I am again, mixin' misery and gin
Sittin' with all my friends and talkin' to myself
I look like I'm havin' a good time but any fool can tell
That this Honkytonk Heaven really makes ya' feel like hell

I light a lonely womans cigarette
We both start talkin' 'bout what we want to forget
Her life story and mine are the same
We both lost someone and only have ourselves to blame

But here I am again, mixin' misery and gin
Sittin' with all my friends and talkin' to myself
I look like I'm havin' a good time but any fool can tell
That this Honkytonk Heaven really makes ya' feel like hell