I know there's never been a man in the awful shape I'm in. I can't even spell my name, my heads in such a spin. To-day I tried to eat a steak with a big old table-spoon.
Lowdown, once again. Well I'm strugglin' now. To get by, my friend. . It's keepin' me up. Late at night. I can't settle down. My honky tonk life. . Driftin' 'round 'bout half past four.
CHORUS. [SUNG]. A little girl prayed at the close of the day,. Cause her daddy had gone far away,. On her little face was a look of despair,. I stood there and listened, and I heard this prayer.