She said I was a magnificent drunk
A remittance man and a whisky friar
Maybe the cause of the death of the dining car
Though she knows it's a lie, we all love a trier

Out of the box rode a raging river of loss
It's not the proposal that comes that causes the pause
All the straw men as they exit to the sound of applause

She said I was a magnificent drunk
Kept an even keel and unlikely to break
Like I could ever be the cause of the death of the dining car
As accusations go it's pretty easy to take

It's not the proposal that comes that causes the pause
Straw men as they exit to the sound of applause

It's not the proposal that comes that causes the pause
It's the straw men as they exit to the sound of applause