Teach 'em How To Swim Lyrics - Songs For Rounders/at The Golden Nugget - Hank Thompson

Babe you got me up a tree a way out on a limb 

You told me lies you let me on then turned me down for him 

You took my heart tore it all apart and then threw it away 

And now that it's all over babe here's all I can say 

Oh take my glass fill it up fill it to the brim 

If I can't drown my troubles babe I'll teach 'em how to swim 

If I can't teach 'em how to swim I'll teach 'em how to float 

So please just pass one more glass to please my dusty throat 

Grandpa's swallowed his first drink when he was only eight 

The doctor warned him then and there to stop before it was too late 

But grandpa was a real strong man he wouldn't heed the plea 

Now he's done drink hisself to death he died at ninety-three 

So since my grandpa lived so long I want to be like him 

If I can't drown my troubles babe I'll teach 'em how to swim 

So here I sit in this old bar my future's looking dim 

If I can't drown my troubles babe I'll teach 'em how to swim 

Oh take my glass fill it up...