Ho, ho hey hey the gamblin’ bar room blues... 
I went down to the corner, just to meet my gal, I foundher standing on the sidewalk, talking to my pal. I strolled back to the bar room, to get another drink of gin. But the firstthing I knew was reelin’, rocking and drunk again. 
I kept drinking gin and liquor, til way up in the night, When my pal came to the bar room, we had an awful fight. I reached down for my razor, and we knocked around, But when I pulled my pistol, I quickly smoked him down. 
Refrain: Hey-hee, hey-ho, ho-ou-ou, ou-ou-ou, ou--ou-oh, oh hey ho I went to see my baby, and met her on the way, Told her I had to leave her, told her I couldn’t stay. I went down to the station, stopped in at the bar, There I met a policeman, riding in a motor car. 
We both drank lots of liqour, that flat footed cop and I, I thought he’d never leave me, Lord, I thought I’d die. My baby came in to join us, and then it began to rain, Then I had to hurry, hurry, to catch that midnight train. 
I laid my head on the ballroom door, I never get drunk anymore, Ipawned my watch and my golden chain, Ipawned my baby’s diamond ring. Police, police, police, you’re just as drunk as me, I grabbed thatol’ eight-wheeler, and went to the deep blue sea-ee. 
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