The Drunkard | I had a wife but, but she is gone. She left me a week ago. God bless her!

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by Fenton Johnson (1888 - 1958)

The Drunkard

(Sung text for setting by R. Baksa)

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Language: English

  I had a wife but, but she is gone. She left me a week ago. God bless her!
  I married another in the rear of Mike's saloon. It was a gallon jug of
the reddest liquor that ever burned the throat of man. I will be true to my
new wife.  You can have the other.

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Robert F. Baksa

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by Fenton Johnson (1888 - 1958)

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Researcher for this page: Robert Baksa

This text was added to the website: 2005-01-13
Line count: 4
Word count: 56

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