D5 She unscrews the top off her new whisky bottle D5 A5 She hobbles about in her candlelit hovel A5 Like some kind of witch, with blue fingers in mittens A5 D5 She smells like a cat, and the nieghbours she sickens D5 Her black and white TV has long seen a picture D5 E5 The cross on the wall is a permenent fixture A5 The postman deliveres, the final reminders A5 G5 / F#5 / E5 She sells off her silver, and poodles in china Chorus. D5 E5 Drinks to remember I, me and myself A5 D5 Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf E5 Home is a love that I miss very much A5 G/E5 So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love ------------------------ D5 During the wartime an American pilot D5 A5 Made every air-raid a time of excitement A5 She moved to his prairie and married the texan A5 D5 She'd learn from a distance how love was a lesson D5 He became drinker and she became mother D5 E5 She knew that one day she'd be one or the other A5 He ate himself old and drank himself dizzy A5 G5 / F#5 / E5 Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty Chorus. D5 E5 Drinks to remember I, me and myself A5 D5 Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf E5 Home is a love that I miss very much A5 G/E5 So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love ------------------------ D5 He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber D5 A5 Out on the porch in the middle of summer A5 She crossed the ocean back home to her family A5 D5 But they had retired to roads that are sandy D5 She moved home alone without friends or relations D5 E5 Lived in a world full of age reservations A5 Her moth eaten armchair, she'd say that she's sod all A5 G5 / F#5 / E5 Friends who have left her, to drink from the bottle ------------------------ Chorus. D5 E5 Drinks to remember I, me and myself A5 D5 Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf E5 Home is a love that I miss very much A5 G/E5 So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love A5 G/E5 So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love A5 G5 / F#5 / E5 / D5 The past --- has been bottled, -- and la--be --led with --- love