I spent my lifetime wishin' the waitress would come around    Tellin' jokes and shootin' pool on the other side of town    When the whistle blows at five o'clock there's only one place I'll be found    Down at Ernie's icehouse liftin' longnecks to that good old country sound    And talkin' 'bout the good old times Braggin' on how it used to be    But I've worn out the same old lines       And now it seems nothing's news to me    There's nothin' like a steel guitar cryin' in the night    There's nothin' like a sawdust floor and a good old friendly fight    I'd finally find my way back home and you'd patch up my face    But that was another time and another place       Repeat chorus       And now we're talkin' 'bout the good old times...    I wonder how I came to be the know-it-all I am    And how the world ever got used to me       Repeat chorus