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DAD BLAME ANYTHING A MAN CAN’T QUIT
As recorded by Roger Miller on “Words and Music,” 1966.

[1] I’m a two-pack-a-day man; I smoke like a fiend,
Like a burned-out bearin’ in a bad machine.
I can’t breathe in the mornin’ till I get myself a cigarette lit.
I say: “Dad* blame anything a man* can’t quit.”

[2] I’m a brand-new newlywed, married again:
Nine times previous and this makes ten.
I ought to be kicked so hard till I can hardly walk around or sit.
I say: “Dad* blame anything a man can’t quit.”

[3] Still, I keep it up, keep it up, and do it all the time.
Ev’ry now and then I make up my mind
To give it up, give it up, throw it away.
I us’ly change my mind later on up in the day.

[Repeat 1, 3, 1, then scat.]

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* He sings “Dad” as 3 syllables/notes: “Da-ha-had.”—and the first time he sings “man,” it has 2 syllables: “ma-han.”

Roger Miller died in 1972 of lung and throat cancer.