Drive-By Truckers - Why henry drinks

^AThem stories that you tell me are so hard to swallow You said “Go to hell” but I know you’d just follow ^DThe future’s closing in quicker than^F# you think And ^Ahanging with you I ^Eknow why ^DHenry ^Adrinks

^AThose obnoxious drunks downstairs are fighting and cussing And twelve years of me and you don’t add up to nothing ^DYou say what’s on your mind - tell it to ^F#your shrink So ^Ahe can know like ^Eme why ^DHenry d^Arinks

^EJust a few more hours till the sun comes back around To tear each other down and drink another round

Mendacity and grudge-fucks and ^Dpieces out of town ^AI drink half a case of beer on my way home from work

^DBaby, push a little harder cause you got me on the ^F#brink Of ^Aspilling more than guts ^Eabout why ^DHenry ^Adrinks ^ATelling you so much a^Ebout why ^DHenry d^Arinks