C F C G C F C G C [Verse] C Champagne don't drive me crazy F Cocaine don't make me lazy C G Ain't nobody's business but my own C Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker F You can take all the liquor down in Costa Rica C G C Ain't nobody's business but my own [Instrumental] C F C G C F C G C [Verse] (spoken) C (Yeah, take it down a little) C I discovered Buck Owens and Bob Dylan on the same night F C On an old wooden, tube driven radio that belonged to my uncle, George Malloy G C I thought Buck and Bob were some new form of hillbilly, beat folk music F C And then someone turned me on to the writings of Charles Bukowski G C And his column, 'Notes Of A Dirty Old Man' in Open City newspaper F And later on I'd actually meet Bukowski on Hollywood and Vine C G C Out on the street and we'd start to correspond C 'Course at the Astro, there was Ramblin' Jack Elliot F Me and Sylvia, Light and Hopkins, Mad Flipson C Later on I'd see Gram Parsons, melting country and rock G C At the old Charlie Kaplan studios on La Brea F With Dave Van Ronk out east, the Growling Minstrel C G Whose voice would roar above the drunken din at the White Horse Tavern C Where Dylan Thomas drank himself to death C Man, a night in Dave Van Ronk's apartment, wow [Verse] C Well, champagne don't drive me crazy F Cocaine don't make me lazy C G Ain't nobody's business but my own C Yeah, candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker F You can take all the liquor down in Costa Rica C G C Ain't nobody's business but my own [Outro] Let's dig it now C G C Ain't nobody's business but my own