1.   Once I was happy and had a good wife

     I had enough money to last me for life

     I met with a gal and we went on a spree

     She taught me to smoke and drink whusky.



cho: Cigareetes, whusky and wild, wild women

     They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane

     Cigareetes, whusky and wild, wild women

     They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane.



2.   Now I am feeble and broken with age

     The lines on my face make a well written page

     I'm leaving this story how sad but how true

     On women and whusky and what they will do.



cho...



3.   Write on the cross at the head of my grave

     "For women and whusky here lies a poor slave"

     Take warning, dear stranger, take warning, dear friend

     Then write in big letters these words at the end.



cho...