CHEAP WHISKEY (Jim Rushing - Emory Gordy, Jr.)
performed by Patty Loveless on MOUNTAIN SOUL (2001)
KEY OF B, 3/4 meter
capo 4, play in G
G Em
He sits all alone in his easy chair
G D G
Staring back on his lost yesterdays
G Em
Long before he enountered the bottle
G D G
And the demons that drove her away
G Em
In his hand he is holding her photograph
G D G
Her image all tear-stained and worn
G Em
Tonight he's embracing reality
G D G
And he curses the day he was born
C G
And the darkness still echoes her warning
C G Em
You can't have two loves in your life
G
Now the things that will haunt him
C
Till the day that he dies
G
Is the smell of cheap whiskey
G F G
And the sound of goodbye
G Em
Since the hour she left he's been sober
G D G
And each breath that he draws makes him think
G Em
Of the love of his life lost forever
G D G
When he traded her love for a drink
REPEAT CHORUS
