作曲 : Mark Knopfler
作词 : KNOPFLER, MARK
  brew the coffee in a bucket
 double straight man and banjo
 if you don’t got the snake oil 
 buster, you don’t got a show
 who puts the doh-re-me
 in our pockets
 keeps the party going on?
 it’s the man
 who sells the potions
 i’m just one who plays the songs
 now they generally buys 
 the bigger size 
 they usually rub it in
 i drank it once, it tasted 
 like grease and paraffin
 it’s mostly alcohol, okay
 you can’t deny it’s strong
 we was going through the motions
 ‘til the doctor came along
 
 there stands the bottle
 ladies and gentlemen
 all these bottles
 don’t have to tell you, friends
 these days miracles
 don’t come falling from the sky
 raise your glasses to the doctor
 to a stand up guy
 
 when the monkeyshine is flying
 and he’s promising the cure
 he says the french 
 for your lovesick blues
 la maladie d’amour
 he gets the chumps all laughing 
 but he gets a few to buy
 here’s to beefsteak 
 when you’re hungry
 and whiskey when you’re dry
 now the band’ll blow their moolah
 like sailors gone ashore
 now we’re going to west helena
 to gamble, drink and whore
 let’s you and me 
 all make whoopee
 here’s mud in your eye
 here’s to all the gals you ever want
 and heaven when you die
 
 there stands the bottle
 ladies and gentlemen
 all these bottles
 don’t have to tell you, friends
 these days miracles
 don’t come falling from the sky
 raise your glasses to the doctor
 to a stand up guy
 
 there’s a big cheese with a cigar 
 been sizing up the show
 he wants to get the doctor
 pitching on the radio 
 i will make a switch to guitar
 but the rules all still apply
 they want to trust somebody
 yeah, they want a stand up guy
 
 there stands the bottle
 here’s to absent friends
 all these bottles
 dead soldiers in the end
 these days miracles
 don’t come falling from the sky
 raise your glasses to the doctor
 to a stand up guy
 to the doctor
 a stand up guy