Well, I'm a drunken-hearted man, my life, it is misery I'm a drunken-hearted man, my life is misery If I could change my way of living, it would mean so much to me I've been dogged and I've been driven, ever since I left my mother's home I've been dogged and I've been driven, ever since I left my mother's home And I can't see no reason why I can't leave these no-good women alone Well, my father died and left me, my poor mother did the best that she could Well, my father died and left me, my poor mother did the best that she could Every man love the game called love, but it don't do no man no good I'm a drunken-hearted man and sin was the cause of it all Oh, I'm a drunken-hearted man and sin was the cause of it all They get weak for those no-good women is the day that you bound to fall Oh, I'm a drunken-hearted man, my life, it is misery Oh, I'm a drunken-hearted man, my life is misery I could change my way of living, it would mean so much to me