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[00:21.05]Old man on a barstool watching TV
[00:25.90]Got up and came over to sit closer to me
[00:31.68]He said "You look familiar to someone I knew
[00:37.46]But when were your age we were older than you
[00:42.88]Jimmy was twenty and I seventeen
[00:48.44]And to us there was nothing but girls and machines
[00:53.88]Jimmy got married and I went to war
[00:59.22]I still don't know what we were doing it for
[01:04.65]But if you'll buy me a drink--turkey on ice
[01:10.66]Then I could give you some advice
[01:15.92]"You just stay in the bar
[01:20.95]For as long as you can
[01:27.65]As long as you're drinking
[01:30.53]Then you've got the world in your hand
[01:50.48]"There's no shame in hanging your world by a string
[01:56.04]And you know there's no harm in not thinking a thing
[02:01.19]But trying to find a place for yourself in this world
[02:06.42]Is like trying to make a wife of an American girl
[02:11.64]If you'll trade me a drink for a story or two
[02:17.38]Then you'll know what you need to do
[02:22.85]"You just stay in the bar
[02:27.93]For as long as you can
[02:33.73]You know love is for sissies
[02:37.48]It's whiskey that makes you a man"
[03:07.55]Now the old man got up and stumbled out in the street
[03:13.45]He'd been drinking all day and left his bar tab with me
[03:18.87]I didn't have the money to cover his bill
[03:24.42]But I found me a man who looked like me, younger still
[03:29.51]And said, "Buy me a drink and I'll tell you a tale
[03:35.71]About the old man who taught me so well
[03:40.54]You just stay in the bar
[03:45.56]For as long as you can
[03:51.62]Hell I know you're a friend
[03:54.52]I can tell by the shakes in your hand
[04:02.73]You just stay in the bar
[04:08.31]For as long as you dare
[04:13.97]As long as you're tipping
[04:17.22]Then you've got a good friend somewhere
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