spending my life in a cold hard bar room drinking that long black whisky down i play the guitar for me it s a living well i know just a hanging around dancing girls oh they drive me crazy all they want is a fancy name don t you know is i might not make it that s the fate of a fool and a guitar man yeah been down to the palace of pleasure honky tonk where i come from smoke s so thick i can t imagine wine flows fast by the rule of a gun one of these mornings it ll come up sunday i won t have a good time again that time ain t now it s a whole new dream that s the fate of a fool and a guitar man one more night one more dollar one more song can you do it again i don t know i may not make it that s the fate of a fool and a guitar man that s the fate of a fool and a guitar man