"In your ear" (a performance strategy)*

Prelude:

Go on and take a minute
and get yourself a beer.
You're probably gonna need it
now that I'm sittin' up here.

There's nothin' wrong with liquor
& you just might need some cheer.
If nothing else, to drown my singin'
you can pour it in your ear!

(drawl to taste. repeat until appropriately soused.)

(perform song or songs, preferably well done.)


Postlude:

Go on and take a minute;
get yourself another beer.
Maybe you still think you need it
even though I'm done up here.

And if you still don't like my singin'
when you've finished off that glass,
I'd like to recommend you kindly
stick.. it.. in.. your..
...e-EARrr!

* This strategy not recommended in venues with chicken wire.