song lyrics - I Drink: (Mary Gauthier & Crit Harmon) this morning Jay 'Squirell Dundee' opened his WHPK show Shape I'm In with this (as record by the Mary Gauthier who wrote it) for day after Thanksgiving "celebration"

He'd get home at five-thirty / fix a drink and sit down in his chair / pick a fight with momma / complain about us kids gettin' in his hair.
At night he'd sit alone and smoke / I'd see his frown behind the lighters flame
Now that same frown is in my mirror / I got my daddy's blood inside my veins.

Fish swim / Birds fly.
Daddies yell / Mommas cry.
Old men / sit & think.
__ / I drink.

chicken tv dinner / six minutes on defrost, three on high / beer to wash it down, then another / some whiskey on the side
It's not so bad alone here / It don't bother me that every night's the same
I don't need another lover hangin' around / tryin' to make me change.

Fish swim / Birds fly.
Lovers leave / by and by
Old men / sit & think.
__ / I drink.

I know what I am / But I don't give a damn.

Fish swim / Birds fly.
Daddies yell / Mommas cry.
Old men / sit & think.
__ / I drink.