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Original Key is E Major
Intro:
A D
D
She unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle
( D ) A
And shuffles about in her candle lit hovel,
( A )
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens
( A ) D
She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens,
D
The black and white t.v. has long seen a picture
D7 Em7
The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture,
A
The postman delivers the final reminders
( A ) G F#m Em D
She sells off her silver and poodles in china.
Chorus:
( D ) Em7
Drinks to remember, I me and myself
A D
And winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf
( D ) Em7
Home is a love that I miss very much
A G F#m Em D
So the past has been bottled and labelled with love.
D
During the war time an american pilot
( D ) A
Made every air raid a time of excitement,
( A )
She moved to his prairie and married the texan
( A ) D
She learnt from a distance how love was a lesson,
( D )
He became drinker and she became mother
D7 Em7
She knew that one day she'd be one or the other,
A
He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy
A G F#m Em D
Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty.
(Chorus)
D
He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber
( D ) A
Out on the porch in the middle of summer,
( A )
She crossed the ocean back home to her family
( A ) D
But they had retired to roads that were sandy,
( D )
She moved home alone without friends or relations
D7 Em7
Lived in a world full of age reservation,
A
On moth eaten armchairs she'd say that she's sod all
( A ) G F#m Em D
The friends who had left her to drink from the bottle.
Chorus x2
A G F#m Em D
The past has been bottled and labelled with love
A G F#m Em D
The past h________as been bottled..... and labelled with love
D (Fade out)
(I think it might play the chorus chords while fading. I end on D )