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