I Can't Quit Drinking Song Lyrics and Chords by Johnny Paycheck
I Can't Quit Drinking
Recorded by Johnny Paycheck
Written by Harlan Sanders and Larry Kingston
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They could quit making
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whiskey
They could stop stomping
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It wasn't for fools like
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me
With hearts that
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break
They could close all the
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breweries
And they could look up the
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bars
If it wasn't for women like
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you
Who
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leaves loving
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scars
And I can't quit
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drinking
Lord knows I've
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tried
I'm gonna
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wear this whiskey glass stare
Till my memories go
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blind
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Now I can't quit
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drinking
And it will kill me they
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say
And if Heaven's sweet
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shores
Has swinging
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doors
I'll
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find it some
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day
You know I thought it all
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over
And I still don't under
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stand
With millions of women
How could
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one mean so much to a
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man
Women and
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whiskey they're so much
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alike
Cause just when you need 'em the
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most
You're
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left high and
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dry
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Yes if Heaven's sweet
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shores
Has swinging
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doors
I'll
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find it some
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day
FAQ
Who sang the the song I Can't Quit Drinking?
- The song I Can't Quit Drinking 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).
