Hell or High Water

William Elliott Whitmore

from Animals in the Dark

Smokeem if you gotem,

____________ your glasses to the __________,
and ______________ me on another year.
Another year of ____________,
another year of holdin on,
you drinkers by _________, and bastards by ___________.
And I ____________ I will see you _____________,
and Ill be ____________ come hell or high water,
and I ____________ I will see you _______________.
________________ round friends and neighbors,
___________ make your _______________ by labor,
and _______________ with me this little time.
This little time that we have ____________,
to have a _______________ and _______________ a breath,
well it _______________ just be what _______________ our lives.
And I ____________ I will see you _____________,
and Ill be ____________ come hell or high water,
and I ____________ I will see you _______________.
Smokeem if you gotem,
______________ your glasses to the _______________,
and listen to the ______________ dogs,
and oh how it _________________ me,
to be in ______________ company
and Im so ___________ our _______________ have crossed.
And I ____________ I will see you _____________,
and Ill be ____________ come hell or high water,
and I ____________ I will see you _______________.
and Ill be ____________ come hell or high water,
and I ____________ I will see you _______________.