Lyrics Stand Up Guy.lrc Mark Knopfler
[id: shxzsnsf]
[ar: Mark Knopfler]
[al: Shangri-La]
[ti: Stand Up Guy]
[length: 04:33]
[00:06.19]Brew the coffee in a bucket
[00:09.94]Double straight man and banjo
[00:12.99]If you don’t got the snake oil
[00:16.17]Buster, you don’t got a show
[00:19.48]Who puts the doh-re-me
[00:21.58]In our pockets
[00:22.90]Keeps the party going on?
[00:25.83]It’s the man
[00:27.17]Who sells the potions
[00:29.16]I’m just one who plays the songs
[00:32.37]Now they generally buys
[00:34.41]The bigger size
[00:36.14]They usually rub it in
[00:39.02]I drank it once, it tasted
[00:42.77]Like grease and paraffin
[00:46.11]It’s mostly alcohol, okay
[00:49.65]You can’t deny it’s strong
[00:52.98]We was going through the motions
[00:56.03]’Til the doctor came along
[01:00.29]There stands the bottle
[01:03.45]Ladies and gentlemen
[01:07.36]All these bottles
[01:10.61]Don’t have to tell you, friends
[01:14.38]These days miracles
[01:17.47]Don’t come falling from the sky
[01:20.99]Raise your glasses to the doctor
[01:24.21]To a stand up guy
[01:35.80]When the monkeyshine is flying
[01:38.92]And he’s promising the cure
[01:42.49]He says the french
[01:44.56]For your lovesick blues
[01:46.32]La maladie d’amour
[01:49.53]He gets the chumps all laughing
[01:52.55]But he gets a few to buy
[01:56.10]Here’s to beefsteak
[01:57.51]When you’re hungry
[01:59.44]And whiskey when you’re dry
[02:02.90]Now the band’ll blow their moolah
[02:06.44]Like sailors gone ashore
[02:10.12]Now we’re going to west helena
[02:13.97]To gamble, drink and whore
[02:17.21]Let’s you and me
[02:19.03]All make whoopee
[02:20.92]Here’s mud in your eye
[02:24.33]Here’s to all the gals you ever want
[02:27.71]And heaven when you die
[02:31.94]There stands the bottle
[02:35.78]Ladies and gentlemen
[02:39.61]All these bottles
[02:42.99]Don’t have to tell you, friends
[02:46.58]These days miracles
[02:49.45]Don’t come falling from the sky
[02:53.24]Raise your glasses to the doctor
[02:56.49]To a stand up guy
[03:04.04]There’s a big cheese with a cigar
[03:10.81]Been sizing up the show
[03:14.49]He wants to get the doctor
[03:17.45]Pitching on the radio
[03:20.82]I will make a switch to guitar
[03:24.42]But the rules all still apply
[03:28.24]They want to trust somebody
[03:31.98]Yeah, they want a stand up guy
[03:35.84]There stands the bottle
[03:39.58]Here’s to absent friends
[03:43.54]All these bottles
[03:46.74]Dead soldiers in the end
[03:50.79]These days miracles
[03:53.99]Don’t come falling from the sky
[03:57.65]Raise your glasses to the doctor
[04:00.74]To a stand up guy
[04:05.21]To the doctor
[04:08.93]A stand up guy
[04:12.86]Year of Release: 2005