John Christopher Treacy - Broken Down Angel Lyrics

I'm a broken down Angel
And the whole world's a stranger
And everyone's living but me
I just drift around from town to town
Because I'm a broken down angel you see

I was a church going lad and everything I had
And everything was as it should be
Till one night out late at a part a date
introduced the bottle to me

Now it didn't taste bad and a few more I had
Till I was down on my knees
Not knowing if t'was snowing or I was coming or going
But she didn't know what she'd done to me

I'm a broken down Angel
And the whole world's a stranger
And everyone's living but me
I just drift around from town to town
Because I'm a broken down angel you see

As the drinking went on well the shorts they got long
And the longer they had to be
On trial for my life and sentenced to die
And not a law man did I ever see

To understand that right you have to see through my life
To see what it done to me
If my date had the sight to see through the nights
She'd have taken that bottle away

I'm a broken down Angel
And the whole world's a stranger
And everyone's living but me
I just drift around from town to town
Because I'm a broken down angel you see