CONFESSIONS OF A BROKEN MAN (Bill Anderson) « ©
'66 Moss Rose Publications » RECORDED BY PORTER
WAGONER

I'm just askin' you to listen not to understand
these confessions of a broken man I don't know
where my story starts or I'd go back to them All I
know it's a sad sad tale so for it has no end I
know I drank too much though I didn't take thirst
Oh I'd have a beer or two and it just seemed to go
from bad to worse Then one day I noticed my money
was goin' out faster than it was comin' in And I
got scared and I started gamblin' and I'm the kind
that just never seems to win I had a woman guess
every man does and every man thinks his is the
best mine was Stuck by me through thick and thin
till it just got too thin I guess She walked in
one day and said she had believed me I could've
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day that she got married again I hope he treats
her better than I Well if you get me idea that I'm
some son of a bum you're catchin' on pretty fast
And if you wonder if I've turned into a wino For
these are all my fingerprints on this glass I've
been sittin' in this bar since they opened up this
mornin' And it's almost time to close tonight I
guess it's about time to go find me a gutter tuck
myself in tonight Where does a man go when he's
already on the bottom It's really not much choise
he's got Either picks hisself up and tries again
or just lays back down to rot No life starts out
to be like mine pain is never planned And yet here
I sit with nothing in the world but these
confessions of a broken man I'm just askin' you to
listen not to understand these confessions of a
broken man