About This Song
About "Drank My Wife Away" by David Allan Coe
Coe's 'Drank My Wife Away' is a bleakly comic honky-tonk confession, played live with a wink and a stagger. The title says it all—a boozy tragedy delivered with pedal steel and a wry grin. It's funny until it isn't, the laughter curdling into a portrait of self-destruction.