Deep Dark Water

(Jim Reeves)



Alone and so lonesome

Bored and so blue

I got the urge to ramble

So I took a drink or two.



It tempted me to trifle

Then my true heart went astray

So I wandered in dark water

And just threw my life away.



I know that it was wrong

To fool around this way so long

Someone was sawing on the limb

That I was sittin' on.



I looked down and I found

I could drown in deep, dark water

So I cried when I realized

I couldn't swim.



A fool and his money

Calls for whiskey and for gin

Filled to the gills and falling for

The weaknesses as a man.



From one fool to another

Wrong is never right

I ignored advice from mother

And brother look at me tonight.



Unsteady as I go

With deep dark water down below

They keep sawing louder on my limb

And soon I'll have to go.



Life's been small, hear my call

As I fall in deep, dark water

Don't be a would-be king

And tumble from your throne...