Music | George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (or "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer") is a blues song written by Rudy Toombs and recorded by Amos Milburn in 1953. It is one of several drinking songs recorded by Milburn in the early 1950s that placed in the top ten of the Billboard R&B chart. Other artists released popular recordings of the song, including John Lee Hooker in 1966 and George Thorogood in 1977.

Lyrics

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

Well, my baby, she gone, gone tonight

I ain't seen the girl since night before last

I wanna get drunk, get off of my mind

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

And I sit there

Get stoned

Mellow

Stoned, feelin' good

Real mellow

Dreamin'

After a while, I looked down the bar

At the bartender

I said, "Hey, what do you want?"

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

Well, my baby, she gone, gone tonight

I ain't seen the baby since night before last

I wanna get drunk, get off of my mind

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

Ah-ha, yeah, uh-m

I'm gonna sit there, I was tastin'

Sippin', gettin' rolling

And gettin' a little dizzy

Couldn't hardly see

The bartender

Couldn't hardly sip

On the bar stool

I was rockin' and I was dizzy

And after a while, I looked on the wall

At the old clock

By that time eleven o'clock

Gettin' a little late

And I looked down the bar

At the bartender

I said, "Hey, what do you want?"

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

Well, my baby, she gone, gone tonight

I ain't seen my baby since night before last

I wanna get drunk, get off of my mind

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

Ah-ha, yeah, yes, sir

And I sit there

At the bar

Uh-m, drinkin'

And after a while, I looked down the bar

At the bartender

Then after I looked down the bar, I looked on the wall

At the old clock

By that time, when the last call for alcohol

Was a quarter to two

Then I looked down the bar

At the bartender

I said, "Hey, what do you want?"

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

Songwriters: John Lee Hooker

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