Old man on a barstool watching TV
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He Got up and came over to sit closer to me
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He said "You look familiar to someone I knew
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But when were your age we were older than you
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And Jimmy was twenty and I seventeen
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to us there was nothing but girls and machines
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Jimmy got married and I went to war
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I still don't know what we were doing it for
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But if you'll buy me a drink--turkey on ice
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Then I could give you some advice
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"You just stay in the bar
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For as long as you can
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Cause as long as you're drinking
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Then you've got the world in your hand
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"There's no shame in hanging your world by a string
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And you know there's no harm in not thinking a thing
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But trying to find a place for yourself in this world
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Is like trying to make a wife of an American girl
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If you'll trade me a drink for a story or two
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Then you'll know what you need to do
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"You just stay in the bar
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For as long as you can
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You know love is for sissies
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It's whiskey that makes you a man"
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Now the old man got up and stumbled out in the street
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He'd been drinking all day and left his bar tab with me
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I didn't have the money to cover his bill
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But I found me a man who looked like me, younger still
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And said, "Buy me a drink and I'll tell you a tale
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About the old man who taught me so well
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You just stay in the bar
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For as long as you can
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Hell I know you're a friend
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I can tell by the shakes in your hand
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You just stay in the bar
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For as long as you dare
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As long as you're tipping
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Then you've got a good friend somewhere
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Barstool
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Gary Jules |