1. Strophe It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place except you and me. So set them up Joe, I got a little story I think you should know. We're drinking my friend, to the end of a brief episode.
1. Refrain Make it one for my baby and one more for the road.
2. Strophe I know the routine, put another nickel in the machine. I feel kind of bad, can't you make the music easy and sad? I could tell you a lot, but it's not in a gentleman's code.
2. Refrain Just make it one for my baby and one more for the road.
Bridge You'd never know it, but buddy I'm a kind of poet and I've got a lot of things I'd like to say. And if I'm gloomy, won't you listen to me till it's talked away?
Coda Well, that's how it goes and Joe I know your getting anxious to close. Thanks for the cheer, I hope you didn't mind my bending your ear. But this torch that I found, it's gotta be drowned or it's gonna explode. Make it one for my baby and one more for the road. The long, it's so long, the long, winding road.