Tom T. Hall - Everything From Jesus To Jack Daniels lyrics

You wake up in the morning drink
A beer and take a Valium
And you're trying to forget about the
Things you did last night
Flip through the morning paper read
The horoscope and the comics
You're as well informed as anybody on
The left or the right
You make it to your job
And hear Atlanta lost another
How can you lose while making half
A million bucks or near
The old man who sweeps the floor
And wears a big blue Reagan button
Says the Russians are a coming but
They've been here for years

Tryin' everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels
It's the all new American diet
Tryin' everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels
You get on it and you're on it


For the rest of your life

There's a story in the paper about
A man who killed his family
He jumped off a bridge because
He couldn't take it anymore
Down at the local tavern a
Young man comes in limpin'
And he claims that he's a veteran
Of the Falkland Islands war
You head home and you're accosted
By a youngster wearin' robes
And wanting money for his God who
Sit's upon a plastic throne
You ignore him if you can and
Make it to the local tavern
Where you order up a drink and
Give some money to your own


There's a man in Tennessee who's
Got it figured out completely
I guess that he's as happy as
A thinking man can be
I asked him what he thought and he
Said brother let me tell you
Try a little bit of both and
Leave out everything in between