Tom Russell - Beat folk

^CChampagne don't drive me crazy ^FCocaine don't make me lazy ^CAin't nobody's business but my ^Gown ^CCandy is dandy, but liquor is quicker You can ^Ftake all the liquor down in Costa Rica ^CAin't nobody's ^Gbusiness but my ^Cown

^C(Yeah, take it down a little) ^CI discovered Buck Owens and Bob Dylan on the same night On an old ^Fwooden, tube driven radio that belonged to my uncle, ^CGeorge Malloy I thought ^GBuck and Bob were some new form of hillbilly, beat ^Cfolk music And ^Fthen someone turned me on to the writings of Charles Bu^Ckowski And his column, '^GNotes Of A Dirty Old Man'^C in Open City newspaper And later on I'd actually meet Bu^Fkowski on Hollywood and Vine Out on the street and we'd ^Cstart to correspond ^{G C} '^CCourse at the Astro, there was Ramblin' Jack Elliot Me and Sylvia, Light and Hopkins, Mad Flipson ^F Later on I'd see Gram Parsons, melting ^Ccountry and rock At the old ^GCharlie Kaplan studios^C on La Brea With Dave Van Ronk out east, the Growling ^FMinstrel Whose voice would roar above the drunken ^Cdin at the White Horse Tavern ^G Where Dylan Thomas ^Cdrank himself to death ^CMan, a night in Dave Van Ronk's apartment, wow

^CWell, champagne don't drive me crazy ^FCocaine don't make me lazy ^CAin't nobody's business but my ^Gown ^CYeah, candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker You can ^Ftake all the liquor down in Costa Rica ^CAin't nobody's ^Gbusiness but my ^Cown

^CAin't nobody's ^Gbusiness but my ^Cown