Spending my life in a cold hard bar-room   Drinking that long black whisky down   I play the guitar, for me it's a living   Well, I know, just a hanging-around   Dancing girls, oh, they drive me crazy   All they want is a fancy name   Don't you know is I might not make it   That's the fate of a fool and a guitar man   Yeah, been down to the palace of pleasure   Honky-tonk, where I come from   Smoke's so thick I can't imagine   Wine flows fast by the rule of a gun   One of these mornings it'll come up sunday   I won't have a good time again   That time ain't now, it's a whole new dream   That's the fate of a fool and a guitar man   One more night, one more dollar   One more song, can you do it again   I don't know, I may not make it   That's the fate of a fool and a guitar man   That's the fate of a fool and a guitar man