Until I commenced to go down.
“’T’aint long when a fellow starts hittin’
The booze till he’s gone the whole way;
And then when he thinks about quittin’,
He’s found that the devil’s to pay.
“A woman—they’re always the reason
In my case the girl was my wife;
We married—were happy a season
And then trouble entered my life.
“The man—we’d been palin’ together