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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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