The Touch Of Your Lips Lyrics - Art Farmer

Georgie, i can't stop drinking 

seems like every time i try i can't stop thinking 

georgie, when i was a boy 

i would stand there in the shade 

of a wedding cake hotel doorway 

watching sister with her liquor in a jar 

talk to older boys in cars. 

Ether was the town where i was born 

they pulled iron from the ground 

and knife wounds from the port 

they built a prison and it tempered in the sun 

it rose up off a plateau like the last tooth in a gum 

you went there by train and you would never be the same. 

they made the blacks live outside of town 

the weekend come they'd tear the whole place down 

chinese came without weekends at all 

and the whites complained the pay was better 

shooting them in the war 

home may be where the calm blinds 

but i could see that they weren't lying. 

my first girls old man was in a later war 

he drank like a motherfucker, now i know what for 

she took my van, put louie in the jack 

left a suicide not and i've got him to thank for that 

and he can thank our statesmen hosts 

although his chances are remote 

georgie, i can't stop drinking 

seems like every time i try i can't stop thinking 

georgie, when i was a boy 

i would stand there in the shade 

of a wedding cake hotel doorway 

watching sister with her liquor in a jar 

talk to older boys in cars. 

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