Fish swim
Birds fly
Daddies yell
Mamas cry
Old men
Stop and think
. . .
. . .
I drink.
The irony here is that Gauthier doesn't drink, at least not anymore. Back in 1990 she opened a restaurant in Boston called the Dixie Kitchen, and after the opening-night party got a little bit raucous, she got picked up on a DUI, and decided that her drankin' days were over. Fortunately, she remembered them well enough to write this song. Hey, here she is now:
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