The Barfly Lyrics - Enter The Haggis

I met an old man one night in a bar 

He was sitting alone 

The way men his age always are 

His movements were slow 

Didn't speak very well 

But every old man has a story to tell 

He lived by the book 

Went to church every day 

But his wife left him young 

With two daughters and bills to pay 

He worked himself hard 

And the years flickered past 

His girls kept him young 

But they grew up so fast 

Prodigal faith always felt second best 

When she turned seventeen 

She took her coat and her camera 

And headed west 

It broke her dad's heart 

But as he likes to say 

With enough time apart 

Even faith fades away 

Jenny met Ray in his last days ashore 

They married in May 

And that August he joined the war 

He said Jenny don't cry 

I'll be home in the fall 

So she held her head high 

And said nothing at all 

Then he got in a plane 

Took it up in the air 

It never came down 

For all she knows it's stlil 

Flying around up there 

Then Jenny went wrong 

And the last that I heard 

It's been seven years long 

Since she uttered a word 

Seven years gone 

Since she uttered a word 

Now her father just sits 

All alone at the bar 

He orders his drinks 

And smokes cigarettes 

He knows he can't afford 

He's got no regrets 

Says he's doing quite well 

But every old man 

Has a story to tell