Ministers of religion

have visited me many times

to talk about it

They say to me

I gotta leave it I gotta leave it

It's a bad habit

for a man

But when I try to leave it

my friends keep telling me

I'm a fool amongst fools



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Now I'm a slave, a slave

I'm a slave

I'm a liquor slave

I'm a slave, a slave, slave

I'm a slave

Just a liquor slave





I have lost my dignity

I had before trying

to please everybody

Some say to me

yo yo

I look better when I'm drunk

Some say no no no

I look bad you know

Sometimes I cry

I cry but my crying

never helps me none





Chorus:

'Cos now I am a slave, a slave

I'm a slave

I'm just a liquor slave

I am a slave, a prisoner

I'm a slave

Just a liquor slave





Every night when I'm

coming back home

My wife gets worried

'cos she knows

Shes got double trouble

coming home

Sometimes I cry

I cry lord I cry

But my crying

never helps me





Chorus: (till fade)