The Gold Barstool

(album: Touch Of You: The Lost Songs Of Gary Stewart - 2020)

Tonight they're throwing a party
In honor of a much-deserving fool
For the million times I've sat down on one
They're giving me the gold barstool

A railroad man would get a watch and chain
A carpenter, a set of golden tools
But what twenty years of drinking has got me
Is my very own gold barstool

Engrave my name there on the stand
And with it put, "The World's Greatest Beer-Drinking Man!"
Put it in a window with a light for all to see
Tonight they give the gold barstool to me

For the times I neglected my woman
She went out and found some other fool
And they can keep on calling me crazy
But he's got her and I've got this gold barstool

Engrave my name there on the stand
And with it put, "The World's Greatest Beer-Drinking Man!"
Put it in a window with a light for all to see
Tonight they give the gold barstool to me
Yeah, tonight they gave that gold barstool to me