As I walked into a run down bar The sign said a one man band He was sittin' on top of a bar stool A guitar held in his hand And the lines he was singing 'bout a memory ringin' I heard this old broken down star Singing women and whiskey you know they will get you Some day I'll get out of these bars Some day I'll get out Some day I'll get out Won't fight no more honky tonk wars I'll find a song, and it won't take too long Until I get out of these bars Well I sat there drinking and dreaming and thinking Of a time not too long ago With those bars all around me, and those grey walls that bound me And the years that went by too slow And the songs that I sang to the blue sky above me As I walked in that big prison yard Singing women and whiskey you know they will get you Some day I'll get out of these bars Some day I'll get out Some day I'll get out Won't fight no more honky tonk wars I'll find a song, and it won't take too long Until I get out of these bars Well I paid for my drink and walked over to where He was singing his lonesome song I said we're a lot a like guitar man you and I But your sentence is way too long "Some day I'll get out" he began to shout As I walked toward that open bar door I'll find a song, and it won't take too long Until I get out of these bars Some day I'll get out Some day I'll get out Won't fight no more honky tonk wars I'll find a song, and it won't take too long Until I get out of these bars