Standard Tuning

Verse 1:

            E                A
If you'll take the time and trouble,
        E            A
I've a story I'll relay,
                      E
how I drank away my freedom,
           B7               E
drank the past to a prison gate.


Chorus 1:
           E                   A
Once love came in sweetest splendor,
          E                 A
Angel's love I thought was mine,
                          E
now I tried to quit my drinkin'
             B7             E
the devil's own red wicked wine,
             B7             E
the devil's own red wicked wine.


Verse 2:
          E                  A
Then one night I found my daughter
                E               A
locked in the arms of my best friend,
                           E
wicked wine and a loaded pistol
              B7               E
brought them both to a bloody end.


Chorus 2:
         E              A
I have traded love and freedom
             E                     A
for prison stripes and a tortured mind,
                           E
now I know but grief and sorrow
             B7             E
all for the love of wicked wine,
             B7             E
the devil's own red wicked wine.


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