Lyr Req: Drunken Hearted Boy (Elvin Bishop)

Subject: Drunken Hearted Boy
From: Pilgrim
Date: 28 Oct 98 - 05:22 PM

i would like to find the words for this song,it was written by Elvin Bishop

Subject: RE: Drunken Hearted Boy
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 29 Oct 98 - 12:18 PM

I have not heard this Elvin Bishop tune, but wouldn't be surprised if it's very close to Robert Johnson's "Drunken Hearted Man", the lyrics to which can be found at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSIC/BLUES/dhm.html
or search The Robert Johnson Notebooks.

Hope that this is of assistance.

Regards,

Steve Latimer

Subject: RE: Drunken Hearted Boy
From: Ciaran
Date: 30 Oct 98 - 11:17 AM

Can't help with posting the lyrics, but you can find the track on the Allman Brothers : "Dreams" album with Elvin Bishop on guitar and vocals.

Subject: RE: Drunken Hearted Boy
From: Ciaran
Date: 30 Oct 98 - 11:25 AM

sorry, forgot to say...just in case you haven't got the cash for "Dreams" (a box set) it's also on "The Fillmore Concerts".

Slan go foill !

Subject: Lyr Add: DRUNKEN HEARTED BOY (from Allman Brothers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 09:44 PM

Transcribed from the recording on Spotify:


DRUNKEN HEARTED BOY
By Elvin Bishop
As sung by the Allman Brothers Band on "The Fillmore Concerts" (1993)

Well, yeah, people, I am a poor drunken-hearted boy.
Well, yeah, people, I am a poor drunken-hearted boy.
I have a whole ocean of trouble, and just a little half a pint of joy.

I drink because I'm worried; I don't drink because I'm dry.
I know if I keep on drinkin', I'm liable to drink away my life.
Baby, bring me another half a pint. I'm tryin to drown these blues. Yes, I am.
People, if you had my troubles, baby, I know you would be drinkin' too.

Baby, if I keep on drinkin' I know I can't last too long
Woman, if I keep on drinkin', people, you know I can't last too long.
That's all right, 'cause when I'm dead and buried, please think about me when you hear this song.