Bathtub Gin

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lyrics

Rambling in the back room
Gambling in the smoke plume
Coppers in the alleyway
Coming up the back soon
She ask me what I wanna drink
I ask her if she ever think
Looked at me like she knew me
When she walked away, she gave a wink

I don’t know your name
But please just let me in
The liquor store’s been closed for years
I know you got bathtub gin

Drinking from a paint can
Chasing down the mail man
Swinging from a tree branch
Swinging from a ceiling fan
Learn me what I’ll never know
Take me where I’ll never go
You can lead a horse to water
But you can’t tell him where the water flow

I can’t see your face
But you look just like my kin
This potion’s got me all mixed up
Pour me one more bathtub gin

Walking on a sand dune
Looking like a dried prune
She says she loves my music
But I’m always singing out of tune
I’ll take it as a compliment
On every single continent
I can howl like an alley cat
But my silence is my dominant

I could never read
But baby I can sin
Come on over to my place
For a world class bathtub gin

Lick me like an old stamp
Take me down to boot camp
Whip me up back into shape
Shake me like a leg cramp
Slap me right upside the head
Tell me that you wish me dead
Chew me up and spit me out
There’s no one that I’d rather wed

Baby I can’t lose
Because I was born to win
So what if I’m an outlaw
Getting rich off bathtub gin?

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from Zander The Great, released February 4, 2015
Produced by Yiannis Shafkalis at Dream Studios

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