Dick Curless Bury The Bottle With Me lyrics

There's a stone in yonder graveyard
With my name carved in it deep
It don't tell my life story
These things, it can't repeat

I never had a family
I never took a wife
All I had was a bottle
And I drank away my life

So bury the bottle with me
For it's what tore me down
So I won't be alone tonight
When they put me in the ground
When they lower my body down

A drunker is a sinner

On this, I place no doubt
Oh, the Lord won't share his palace
With the things he lives without

For the bottle is the devil
And drinking is his name
Now the bottle is what took my soul
And petrified my brain

So bury the bottle with me
For it's what tore me down
So I won't be alone tonight
When they put me in the ground
When they lower my body down