Tom Paxton - The Fatal Gla** lyrics

Now there once was a young man, and he came to the big city Seeking a lucrative position commensurate with his talents And he walked the streets all day and he couldn't find a job Till at last he secured employment working in a stone quarry with all the other college graduates And one evening after work, they lured him into a saloon And they urged him to drink a gla** of beer But he said he wouldn't do it for he'd made a promise to his mother That he'd never touch a gla** containing an alcoholic beverage Well, they laughed and they jeered, they called him a coward Till at last he raised and drained the fatal gla** And when he'd seen what he had done, he dashed the gla** against the bar And rushed from the saloon with a terrible case of delirium tremens And the first one that he saw was a Salvation Army lady And with one kick he broke her tambourine While all she said was "Heaven bless you", and placed a mark upon his brow With a kick she had learned before she was saved So the moral of this story is to shun the fatal gla** And don't go around kicking other people's tambourines