George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer

Intro

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Spoken, but around the b3 and the 1

EWanna tell you a story

About the house rent blues

I come home one Friday

Had to tell the landlady I done lost my job

She said that don’t befront me

Long as I get my money next Friday

Now next Friday come I didn’t get the rent

Hard stop before this line

And out the door I went

Fancy riff, and the band comes back in, still spoken, vox around the b7 now

ESo I goes to the landlady

I said, you let me slide?

I’ll have the rent for you tomorrow or the next day I don’t know

So said let me slide it on you know people

I notice when I come home in the evenin’

She ain’t got nothing nice to say to me

But for five year she was so nice

Lord, she was lovey-dovey

I come home one particular evenin’

The landlady said, you got the rent money yet?

I said, no, can’t find no job

Therefore I ain’t got no money to pay the rent

She said I don’t believe you’re tryin’ to find no job

Said I seen you today you was standin’ on a corner

Leaning up against a post

I said but I’m tired, I been walkin’ all day

She said that don’t befront me

Long as I get my money next Friday

Now next Friday come I didn’t have the rent

Hard stop again, same deal

And out the door I went

ESo I go down the streets

Down to my good friend’s house

I said Look man, I’m outdoors, you know

Can I stay wicha maybe a couple days?

He said uh, let me go and ask my wife

He come out of the house, I could see in his face

I knowed it was “no”

He said I don’t know man, ah she kinda funny, an’ all

I said I know, everybody funny, now you funny, too

So I go back home, I tell the landlady I got a job, I’m gonna pay the rent

She said yeah, I said aw yeah

And then she was so nice

Lord, she was lovey-dovey

So I go in my room, pack up my things and I go

I slip on out the back door and down the streets I go

She a-hollerin’ about the front rent, she be lucky to get any back rent

She ain’t gonna get none of it

So I stop in the local bar, you know, people

I go to the bar, I hang my coat, I call the bartender

I said look man, come down here, he got down there

Said, whatchoo want?

Now sung, more or less, around the b3

Well I aEin’t seen my baby since I don’t know when

I been dErinking bourbon whiskey, scotch and gin

EGonna get high man, I’m gonna get loose

ENeed me a triple shot o’ that juice

EGonna get drunk, don’t you have no fear

I wEant one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

EBut I’m sittin’ there, at the bar

I’m gettin’ drunk, I’m feelin’ mellow

I’m drinkin’ bourbon, I’m drinkin’ scotch, I’m drinkin’ beer

Looked down the bar, here come the bartender

I said look man, come down here, he got down there

Said, whatchoo want?

No, I aEin’t seen my baby since the night before last

EGotta get a drink man, I’m gonna get gassed

EGonna get high man, I ain’t had enough

ENeed me a triple shot of that stuff

EGonna get drunk, won’tcha listen right here

I wEant one bourbon, one shot ‘n one beer

Solo

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Spoken again

ENow by this time I’m plenty high

You know when your mouth a-getting dry, you’re plenty high

Looked down the bar, I see’da my bartender

I said look man, come down here, he got down there

He said whatchoo want this time?

I said look man, a-what time is it?

He said the clock on the wall say three o’clock

Last call for alcohol, so what you need?

Lord, I aEin’t seen my baby since a-nigh on a week

EGotta get drunk man, so I can’t even speak

EGonna get high man, listen to me

EOne drink ain’t enough Jack, you better make it three

EGonna get drunk, I’m gonna make it real clear

Hard stop on “want”

I Ewant one bourbon, one scotch ‘n’ one beer

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