All day I clean the table green,
At night I hit the gutter,
Cruel gutter.
When I leave my opponets dry,
I drink, they close the shutters,
Pool, beer, gutter.

Keep a-shootin', Stan, don't you be a quitter, Stan,
I'm a devil, not a man,
and I spend the bucks I win
On lager.
Stan, can you see that big red three?
Now you've really gotta wait,
Don't start goin' for the eight,
Oh, me!

At night I'm drunk just like a skunk,
Each game I buy a lager,
Cool lager.
But at sunrise I'll wake outside
And curse again the gutter,
Pool, beer, gutter.

Keep a-shootin', Stan, don't you be a quitter, Stan,
I'm a devil, not a man,
and I spend the bucks I win
On lager.
Stan, you just blew that big blue two!
Shouldn't be too hard for you,
It ain't cool to try to lose
For me!

The patrons play and seem to say
Tonight we'll buy his lager,
Cool lager.
The pool games here, they have no prayer,
But at close we share the gutter.
Pool, beer, gutter.

Keep a-shootin', Stan, don't you be a quitter, Stan,
I'm a devil, not a man,
and I spend the bucks I win
On lager.
Stan, you can get that big green six,
No, I ain't a-pulling tricks,
That kind of ball's for hicks,
Not me!

My feet are sore,
I'm yearning for
Just one thing more than lager,
Cool lager.
Oh, how I'd like to spend the night
Some place that's not a gutter,
Pool, beer, gutter.