WINE, WOMEN AND SONG (Tom Evans)
[Tom Evans demo from "I Am Myself - Demos: 1967-1970 - recorded 1967 or 1968 - released 2024]

Wine, women and song
Wine, women and song
Indulge in the lot
Surely will rot
With your wine, women and song

Charlie was a man of the world
He thought she'd find him a girl
He found him a lass
Who, alas, had no class
She made his golden hair curl

Wine, women and song
Wine, women and song
Who indulge in the lot
Surely will rot
With your wine, women and song

But then, old Charlie slipped up
And she wasn't taking his bluff
She had him in church to a funeral dirge
She happily married him up

Wine, women and song
Wine, women and song
You indulge in the lot
You surely will rot
With your wine, women and song

Charlie had heard her agree
Every word began with a "v"
She started flying her trade
While he was making the grade
As the champion drunkard to be

Wine, women and song
Wine, women and song
You indulge in the lot
Surely will rot
With your wine, your women and song

Charlie asked for divorce
But marriage had took its due course
But came a nipper
When he wanted to quit her
So he took his money by force

Wine, women and song
Wine, women and song
If you indulge in the lot
You surely will rot
With your wine, women and song

Charlie was getting browned off
All he liked to do was blow froth
He came to a river
And in it, did slither
So the man of the world was bumped off

Wine, women and song
Without them, you live not very long
If you want to be like Charlie
Who ended like Molly
Drink wine, love women and sing

lyrics transcribed by Tom Brennan

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