Letra de Barstool

Old man on a barstool watching TV
Got up and came over to sit closer to me
He said "You look familiar to someone I knew
But when were your age we were older than you
Jimmy was twenty and I seventeen
And to us there was nothing but girls and machines
Jimmy got married and I went to war
I still don´t know what we were doing it for
But if you´ll buy me a drink--turkey on ice
Then I could give you some advice

"You just stay in the bar
For as long as you can
As long as you´re drinking
Then you´ve got the world in your hand

"There´s no shame in hanging your world by a string
And you know there´s no harm in not thinking a thing
But trying to find a place for yourself in this world
Is like trying to make a wife of an American girl
If you´ll trade me a drink for a story or two
Then you´ll know what you need to do

"You just stay in the bar
For as long as you can
You know love is for sissies
It´s whiskey that makes you a man"

Now the old man got up and stumbled out in the street
He´d been drinking all day and left his bar tab with me
I didn´t have the money to cover his bill
But I found me a man who looked like me, younger still
And said, "Buy me a drink and I´ll tell you a tale
About the old man who taught me so well

You just stay in the bar
For as long as you can
Hell I know you´re a friend
I can tell by the shakes in your hand
You just stay in the bar
For as long as you dare
As long as you´re tipping
Then you´ve got a good friend somewhere