Charlie Robison Life of the party Well they call me the life of the party They call her the belle of the ball Well we start before anybody And I promise we'll outlast them all Well it started when I was in high school My mom and my dad taught me well A bottle of wine at Thanksgiving And a Valium when Grandma raised hell So I had some champagne at a wedding I believe that they called it cold duck And the girl I'd been eyeing all evening She took me round back and we sucked down The rest of that bottle And things really started to click Well, we kissed on the boxes ef liquor And she reached down and grabbed her some Dickel And added some cola Far be it for me should I pass For I thought that if I drink another I'd certainly need me some aspirin On the next morning I'd tried not to make me a sound 'Cause the girl who was sleepin' beside me Had gained herself 200 pounding On my bedroom window My dad yelled to jump out of bed But she woke up from all the commotion Insisting she give me some headlines She'd read in the paper She said it had been yesterday They said if you use moderatien Our mornings could he all this way Well, they call me the life of the party They call her the belle of the ball Well we start before anybody And I promise we'll outlast them all