(Intro) (Chorus) When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in, I'd rather be here then go home... Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone. (Verse) Mary my bride, she was just seventeen, Her parents they didn't approve... Her mom was a bitch 'cause I wasn't rich and they sent her to boarding school. When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in, I'd rather be here then go home... Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone. (Verse) Lost my true love, 'twas a family affair, What was a poor lad to do?... I asked for her hand not her Dad's plan and that's why I sit on this stool. When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in, I'd rather be here then go home... Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone. (Verse) (Slower, single strum) She wrote me a letter, then knitted a sweater, The note it read "Good luck"... (Faster, regular strum) But a tear in my beer, the ink it did smear And that's why I'm better off drunk. When you close up the bar, would you please lock me in, I'd rather be here then go home... Got me no wife and I had me no kids so I'd rather be here than alone. (Repeat Chorus 2x, last time a capella sing along)
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