Beer Drinking Woman Lyrics - The Blues - Memphis Slim

The story's true ladies and gentlemen 

All the names have been changed to 

Protect the innocent 

The year nineteen hundred and forty 

The city, Chicago the place, Rubin's Tavern 

The story goes something like this 

I walked into a beer tavern 

To give a girl a nice time 

I had forty-five dollars when I enter 

When I left I had one dime 

Wasn't she a beer drinkin' woman? 

Don't ya know, man don't ya know? 

She was a beer-drinkin' woman 

And I don't want to see her no more 

Now, when I spend down to my last dime 

She said, darlin' I know you're not through 

I said, yes, baby doll 

And the trophy belongs to you 

Wasn't she a beer drinkin' woman? 

Don't you know, man don't you know? 

She was a beer-drinkin' woman 

And I don't wanna see her no more 

Now she'd often say, excuse me a minute 

I've got to step around here 

And every time she came back 

She had room for another quart of beer 

Wasn't that a beer drinkin' woman? 

Don't ya know, man, don't ya know? 

She was a beer drinkin' woman 

And I don't want to see her no mo