There's a stone in yonder graveyard with my name carved in it deep
It don't tell my life story these things it can't repeat
I never had a family I never took a wife
All I have was a barroom and I dran away my life
So bury the bottle with me for it's what tore me down
So I won't be alone tonight when they put me in the ground
When they lower my body down
A drunker is a sinner on this I place no doubt
Oh the Lord won't share this palace with a thing he lives without
For the bottle is the devil and drinking is his name
Now the bottle is what took my soul and petrified my brain