One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer chords by Glee Cast

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Verse 1:
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Wanna tell you a story

About the house rent blues

I come home one Friday
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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
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Now next Friday come I didn't get the rent

And out the door I went

Verse 2:
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So 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
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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
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But for five year she was so nice

Lord, she was lovey-dovey

I come home one particular evenin'
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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"
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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"
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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"
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Now next Friday come I didn't have the rent

And out the door I went

Verse 3:
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So I go down the streets

Down to my good friend's house

I said "Look man
I'm outdoors, you know
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Can I stay wicha maybe a couple days "

He said "Uh, let me go and ask my wife"

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

I knowed it was "no"

He said "I don't know man, ah she kinda funny, an' all"
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I said "I know, everybody funny, now you funny, too"

Verse 4:
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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"
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And then she was so nice

Lord, she was lovey-dovey

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

Verse 5:
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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
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Said, "Whatchoo want "

Chorus 1:
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"One bourbon, one scotch, one beer"
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Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when

I been drinking bourbon whiskey,scotch and gin

Gonna get high man
I'm gonna get loose
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Need me a triple shot o' that juice

Gonna get drunk, don't you have no fear

I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer
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One bourbon, one scotch, one beer

Solo:

Verse 6:
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But I'm sittin' there

At the bar

I'm gettin' drunk
I'm feelin' mellow
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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"
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Said "Whatchoo want "

Chorus 2:
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"One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
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No
I ain't seen my baby since the night before last

Gotta get a drink man
I'm gonna get gassed
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Gonna get high man
I ain't had enough

Need me a triple shot of that stuff
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Gonna get drunk, won'tcha listen right here

I want one bourbon, one shot 'n' one beer
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One bourbon, one scotch, one beer" (well all right)

Solo:
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(Scratch my back, bay-bah)
(Yeah-ahhh right)

Verse 7:
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Now 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
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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 "
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He said "The clock on the wall say three o'clock

Last call for alcohol, so what you need "

Chorus 3:
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"One bourbon, one scotch, one beer"
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Lord
I ain't seen my baby since a-night on a week

Gotta get drunk man, so I can't even speak

Gonna get high man, listen to me
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One drink ain't enough Jack, you better make it three

Gonna get drunk
I'm gonna make it real clear

I want one bourbon, one scotch 'n' one beer
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One bourbon, one scotch, one beer"