Well, me and my lady
had our first big fight
So I drove around
'til I saw the neon lights
The corner bar
It just seemed right, so I pulled up
Not a soul around but the old barkeep
Down at the end lookin' half asleep
He walked up and said "What'll it be?"
I said,''The good stuff."
He didn't reach around for the whiskey
He didn't pour me a beer
His blue eyes kind of went misty
He said, "You can't find that here."

'Cause it's the first long kiss
on a second date
Your momma's all worried
when you get home late
Droppin' the ring in the spaghetti plate
'Cause your hands are shakin' so much
It's the way that she looks
with the rice in her hair
Eatin' burnt suppers
the whole first year
And askin' for seconds
to keep her from tearin' up
Yeah man, that's the good stuff.

He grabbed a carton of milk
and he poured a glass
Then I smiled and said,
"I'll have some of that."
We sat there and talked
as an hour passed like old friends
Saw a black and white picture
and it caught my stare
It was a pretty girl with bouffant hair
He said, "That's my Bonnie,
taken 'bout a year after we wed."
He said, "Spent 5 years in the bottle,
when the cancer took her from me,
But I've been sober three years now
'Cause the one thing stronger
than the whiskey.

Was the sight of her
holdin' our baby girl
The way she adored
that string of pearls
I gave her the day that our
youngest boy Earl
Married his high school love
And it's a new t-shirt saying
"I'm a grandpa."
And being right there
as our time got small
And holdin' her hand
when the good Lord called her up
Yeah man, That's the good stuff.

He said, ''When you get home
she'll start to cry."
When she says, ''Im sorry.'',
say ''So am I.''
Then look into those eyes
so deep in love and drink it up
'Cause thats the good stuff.

That's the good stuff...