Lyrics to
I Gotta Get Drunk

This version of I Gotta Get Drunk was released by Willie Nelson in 1970.

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Well I gotta get drunk and I sure do dread it
Cuz I know just what I’m gonna do
I’ll start to spend my money callin’ everybody honey
And I’ll wind up singin’ the blues
I’ll spend my whole paycheck on some old wreck
And brother I can name you a few
Well I gotta get drunk and I sure do dread it
Cuz I know just what I’m gonna do

I gotta get drunk, I just can’t stay sober
There’s a lot of good people in town
Who like to see me holler, see me spend my dollar
And I wouldn’t dream of lettin’ ’em down
There’s a lot of doctors tell me
That I’d better start slowing it down
But there’s more old drunks than there are old doctors
So I guess we’d better have another round

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About Lyrics and I Gotta Get Drunk by Willie Nelson

The lyrics to I Gotta Get Drunk are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Willie Nelson used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to I Gotta Get Drunk have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Willie Nelson and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to I Gotta Get Drunk by Willie Nelson. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Gotta Get Drunk" means the words set to the music of I Gotta Get Drunk, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Willie Nelson. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Gotta Get Drunk and the lyrics to I Gotta Get Drunk are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Willie Nelson who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Gotta Get Drunk, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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