Best Of All Possible Worlds - The Little Willies

作曲：Kris Kristofferson

I was runnin' through the summer rain

Waiting for the evenin' train

To kill that old familiar pain

Weavin' through my tangled brain

When I tipped my bottle back

Smacked into a cop I didn't see

That policeman said mister cool

If you ain't drunk then you're a fool

I said if that's against the law

Tell me why I never saw

No man locked in this jail of yours

Wasn't just as low down poor as me

And that's just when someone turned out the lights

Yes and I wound up in jail to spend the night

And the dream of all the wine and lonely girls

In this best of all possible worlds

Next mornin' woke up feelin' like

My head was really gone

And like my thick old tongue

Was lickin' something sick and wrong

I said I'd sell my soul for something

About as wet and cold as this old cell

That kindly jailer looked at me

All eaten up with sympathy

Then poured himself another beer

Came and whispered in my ear

If booze was just a dime a bottle

Boy you couldn't even buy the smell

I said I knew there's something I liked about this town

Oh but it'll take more than that to bring me down

Cause there's still a lot of wine and lonely girls

In this best of all possible worlds

Well they finally came and told me

They was a gonna set me free

And I'd be leavin' town

If I knew what was good for me

I said it's nice to learn

That everybody's so concerned about my health

But I won't be leavin' no more quicker than I can

And I've enjoyed about as much of this as I can stand

And I don't need this town of yours

No more than I never needed nothin' else

Cause there's still a lot of drinks that I ain't drunk

Yes and lots of pretty thoughts that I ain't thunk

Oh yeah there's still a lot of wine and lonely girls

In this best of all possible worlds

In this best of all possible worlds

In this best of all possible worlds