Another favourite - Guy Clark's LIKE A COAT FROM THE COLD

I've found comfort and courage in bottles of whiskey.
But I swear to you friend that that life is sum'm risky.
I have backed away quickly from those that would burn me.
And stopped up my ears that no one should learn me.

CHORUS: But the lady beside me is the one I have chosen
to walk through my life like a coat from the cold

2. I have flown like a bird from each cage that confined me
And broken every one of the ties that would bind me
I have danced me around some sad ol' situations
And taken up my share of them sweet invitations

CHORUS: But the lady beside me is the one I have chosen
To walk through my life like a coat from the cold
To walk through my life like a coat from the cold