FEATHER BEN
(Peter Bowen)
Utah Phillips: All Used Up: A Scrapbook

It sure tasted good
Yeah, that's what I said
I'll have another
As long as you're buying

I'd like to live on
Whiskey and chocolate ice cream
I'd move some place
Where it's warm in December
Pretend there's more time than I've got

Chocolate ice cream
And good bourbon whiskey
Sometimes old ladies
Make me take baths

Sreak twice a week
And chicken on Sunday
I worked all my life
Is that too much to ask

Can you play any Hank Williams
Or old cowboy songs
D'ya know anything
Worth listening to

Hey, I'm just an old drunk
Don't pay me no mind
You've been much too good
For me to talk that way to

But it sure tasted good
Yeah that's what I said
And I'll have another
As long as you're buying

I'd like to live on
Whiskey and chocolate ice cream
I'd move some place
Where it's warm in December
Pretend there's more time than I've got

I fought in three wars
And I raised me three children
Never learned much more
Than the size of my shirt

Wars didn't help
The kids ain't worth shit
No use complainin'
It could've been worse

And you kids with your lovers
Whose last name you don't know
At least I could always
Match the name with the ass

I had my lovers
When my age was golden
And you can have yours
It ain't even good grass

But it sure tasted good
Yeah, that's what I said
I'll have another
As long as you're buying

I'd like to live on
Whiskey and chocolate ice cream
I'd move some place
Where it's warm in December
Pretend there's more time than I've got

Well it's long past my bedtime
I'll toddle along
You kids be good
If it matters to you

You're lookin' ahead
To those beers and them women
I'm lookin' back
It's much better from here

But it sure tasted good
Yeah, that's what I said
I'll have another
As long as you're buying

I'd like to live on
Whiskey and chocolate ice cream
I'd move some place
Where it's warm in December
Pretend there's more time than I've got
I pretend there's more time than I've got