Hangin' around this dirty old town Pickin' for nickels and dimes
Askin' a friend just to lend me a hand To get a little bottle of wine
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine When you gonna let me get sober?
Leave me alone and let me go home Let me go back and start over
A little hotel cold as a well And dark as the coal in the mine
The blankets so thin that I lay there and grin Huggin' my bottle of wine
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine When you gonna let me get sober?
Leave me alone and let me go home Let me go back and start over
A preacher will preach and a teacher will teach A miner will dig in the mine
I ride the rods trustin' in God Huggin' my bottle of wine
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine When you gonna let me get sober?
Leave me alone and let me go home Let me go back and start over