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Introduction:
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Wanna tell you a story
About the house rent blues
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Had to tell the landlady I done lost my job
She said that don't befront me
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Now next Friday come I didn't get the rent
And out the door I went
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So I goes to the landlady
I said, "You let me slide?"
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So said let me slide it on you know people
I notice when I come home in the evenin'
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But for five year she was so nice
Lord, she was lovey-dovey
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The landlady said, "You got the rent money yet?"
I said, "No, can't find no job
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She said "I don't believe you're tryin' to find no job"
Said "I seen you today you was standin' on a corner
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I said "But I'm tired, I been walkin' all day"
She said "That don't befront me
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Now next Friday come I didn't have the rent
And out the door I went
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So I go down the streets
Down to my good friend's house
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Can I stay wicha maybe a couple days?"
He said "Uh, let me go and ask my wife"
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I could see in his face
I knowed it was "no"
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I said "I know, everybody funny, now you funny, too"
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So I go back home
I tell the landlady I got a job, I'm gonna pay the rent
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And then she was so nice
Lord, she was lovey-dovey
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I slip on out the back door and down the streets I go
She a-hollerin' about the front rent, she be lucky to get any back rent
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So I stop in the local bar, you know, people
I go to the bar, I hang my coat, I call the bartender
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Said, "Whatchoo want?"
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"One bourbon, one scotch, one beer"
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Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when
I been drinking bourbon whiskey,scotch and gin
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Need me a triple shot o' that juice
Gonna get drunk, don't you have no fear
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One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
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But I'm sittin' there
At the bar
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I'm drinkin' bourbon, I'm drinkin' scotch, I'm drinkin' beer
Looked down the bar, here come the bartender
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Said "Whatchoo want?"
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"One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
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No, I ain't seen my baby since the night before last
Gotta get a drink man, I'm gonna get gassed
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Gonna get high man, I ain't had enough
Need me a triple shot of that stuff
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Gonna get drunk, won'tcha listen right here
I want one bourbon, one shot 'n' one beer
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One bourbon, one scotch, one beer" (well all right)
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(Scratch my back, bay-bah)
(Yeah-ahhh right)
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Now by this time I'm plenty high
You know when your mouth a-getting dry, you're plenty high
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I said "Look man, come down here", he got down there
He said "Whatchoo want this time?
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He said "The clock on the wall say three o'clock
Last call for alcohol, so what you need?"
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"One bourbon, one scotch, one beer"
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Lord, I ain't seen my baby since a-night on a week
Gotta get drunk man, so I can't even speak
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One drink ain't enough Jack, you better make it three
Gonna get drunk, I'm gonna make it real clear
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One bourbon, one scotch, one beer"