Greed Kills More People Than Whiskey Lyrics - Tom T. Hall

I was standin' outside of a hotel in Houston blinkin' my eyes in the bright morning sun 

A feller next to me said where are you headed 

I told him to Nashville cause that's where I'm from 

I said I had one or too many last evening brother I damn near fell off of my steed 

He said yeah whiskey gets 'em and whiskey gets many 

But listen son nothin' kills people like greed 

I said huh and I turned to him and he was a cowboy 

Bout fifty years old in a big western hat 

Sir if you said that greed killed more people than whiskey 

If my taxi don't come tell me more bout that 

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He said I knew a guy who made millions on millions 

Then he turned right around and made millions on that 

He had crude oil and blue chips and good barns and feed lots 

He could touch an old steer and just turn into fat 

And he coveted the money that other folks lived on 

He never spent nickels he thought he could keep 

It was money that made him a night hawk and a worrier 

And soon it was money that robbed him of sleep 

And they buried him deep in a west Texas graveyard 

They put up a tombstone of all he had done 

And I am the man that he fired for a few beers 

But I'm sure feeling good in the west Texas sun 

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I shook hands with that man and I crawled in the taxi 

And I thought of the two things that I keep doing wrong 

The man said that the greed killed more people than whiskey 

And I'm sittin' here hung over writin' a song