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Drinking in a bar in Fort McMurray Buck and Merle and me
The music on the jukebox brings us to Bakersfield
For every round there's another town in a barroom crowd somewhere
We're all wishing we were long gone and they're wishing they were here
Merle's looking mighty haggard he can't hardly sleep
The bottle turned him down and the big city set him free
He got hung up on a woman now he's in a world of pain
Today his favorite memory is loving her again
Drinking in a bar in Fort McMurray Buck and Merle and me
The music on the jukebox brings us to Bakersfield
For every round there's another town in a barroom crowd somewhere
We're all wishing we were long gone and they're wishing they were here
Buck is low 'cause he is owing on all kinds of debt
He's got a pile of bills so high he ain't seen the bottom yet
Close up the honky tonks when his money comes in the mail
If he starts acting naturally he'll have a tiger by the tail
If a sad song could sing you home Merle would already have cried
Buck wouldn't be down on the corner waiting in the welfare line
As for me I'd still be here I ain't nothing like them
I just like to hear the songs it don't matter where I am
Drinking in a bar in Fort McMurray Buck and Merle and me
The music on the jukebox brings us to Bakersfield
For every round there's another town in a barroom crowd somewhere
We're all wishing we were long gone and they're wishing they were here
We're all wishing we were long gone and they're wishing they were here