D.O.A. (Drunk On Arrival) Song Lyrics and Chords by Johnny Paycheck
D.O.A. (Drunk On Arrival)
Recorded by Johnny Paycheck
Written by Larry Lee, Ed Hudson, Michael Heeney
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Lord don't I know whiskey
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ain't a good
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chaser
For chasin' a
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memory gone
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wild
It ain't no cure and it
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won't
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erase
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Only board up the pain for
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awhile
So
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why did I reach for that
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barroom
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I ain't been drunk in a week and a
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day
Lord
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guide these headlights cause the
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bottle
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tonight
Says I'm comin' home
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Drunk on arrival three
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sheets to the
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wind
Ain't no mistakin' the
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state that I'm
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in
Deliver me Lord from this
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hell where I
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been
Mixing whiskey and memories till
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when
I'm drunk on arrival
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again
I musta drunk every drop that the
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bar had to
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offer
Musta closed it
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down drunk it
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dry
I ain't been in worse shape since the
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day that I
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lost
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And this bottle's the damn reason
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why
Now the
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road keeps a swayin' the
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stop signs are a
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blur
Lord I
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hope that you're lookin' my
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way
Hope the
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drive ends ahead cause I
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feel all but
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dead
Comin' home
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FAQ
Who sang the the song D.O.A. (Drunk On Arrival)?
- The song D.O.A. (Drunk On Arrival) was sang by Johnny Paycheck.
Who is Johnny Paycheck?
- Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle May 31, 1938 - February 19, 2003) was an American country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a force in country music's "outlaw movement" popularized by artists Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career slowed due to drug, alcohol and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000. In 1980, Paycheck appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits (season 5).
