I've high tolerance for me vodka and whiskey <br />Like a sailor's great love for the sea, <br />And even can tolerate tea-totallers and temperance <br />As long as they're not foisted on me, <br />Me, ne'r to be foisted on me. <br /> <br /> Chorus: <br /> Me, me, its all about me <br /> As far as me bloody eyes see. <br /> Though if drink be my bane, <br /> Still it takes away pain. <br /> O drunk is the best way to be. <br /> <br />My mother and father tried rightly to raise me <br />Like parents who care for their kind. <br />But something's amiss-I just needs to get pissed, <br />So I'll raise me a glass, two or three, <br />Three, raise me a glass two or three. <br /> <br /> Me, me, its all about me <br /> As far as me bloody eyes see. <br /> With drink good and strong <br /> I'll soon be far gone. <br /> O drunk is the best way to be. <br /> <br />Though I waken in morning's gutter so grim <br />And me stomach's about to heave-ho, <br />There's always the hair of the dog that bit me, <br />Pledging abstinence, I mutters a hymn, <br />Hymn, pledge to abstain once again. <br /> <br /> Me, me, its all about me <br /> As far as me bloody eyes see. <br /> Though one is too much <br /> And a thousand n'er enough, <br /> O drunk is the best way to be. <br /> <br />I once had a wife, fine car and warm home, <br />with children who counted on me. <br />But I threw them away, in the bottle I stayed, <br />Now me bottle has left me alone, <br />Alone, me bottle and me all alone. <br /> <br /> Me, me, its all about me <br /> As far as me bloody eyes see. <br /> My attempts to kill pain <br /> Only snuffed out me brain. <br /> O drunk is the best way to be. <br /> <br /> Resigned in me pity I'll be, I'll be, <br /> <br /> And drunk is how they'll bury me.<br /><br />Phillip Michael Sawatzky<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alcoholic-s-shanty/
