Hey Hey Whiskey

from Headlong, Head Strong by Chris Lord and Cheatin' River

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CH: Hey Hey Whiskey won’t you take a bow
Come on in – tell us how you never meant for any harm to come
Hey Hey Whiskey look what you’ve done

V1- An awkward girl – shy of seventeen
She’d rather be alone – preferred unseen
Her first taste of liquor was her old man’s Jim Beam
And she slept in peace that night with no dreams

V2- She was never far from her new found friend
Oh they’d laugh, they’d cry, they’d condescend
One day she packed her suitcase and she was gone without a word
Left her old man to drink in fear for his girl

CH

V3- She quit her job, dropped out of school
Living on the streets, invisible
First time a man paid her for what she thought was love
She died inside, no one to trust

BR: She never gave herself a chance to grow
Into the woman she knew lived within her soul
The man that took her mother had been drinking all day
One last trip to the liquor store, took her life away

CH w/ steel lead over second CH

V4- She still drank to ease the pain
Lashed out at the numbness with cocaine
She OD’d the first time smoking methamphetamine
She and Jim – they swore next time to get clean

BR- They fell into a cycle of abuse
He’d only hit her when she drank or she used
But the last time was different and she bled out on the floor
She died alone on a Tuesday night – so tired, scared, and cold

Hey Hey Whiskey won’t you take a bow
Come on in – tell us how you never meant for any harm to come
Hey Hey Whiskey look what you’ve done

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from Headlong, Head Strong, released January 12, 2016

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