Key: G
Introduction:
G C G
Grandma was a pretty thing when she was just sixteen
D7
She fell in love with a full grown man who ran off with a barroom queen
G
My daddy was just a baby then but he remembers to this day
Em D7 G
His old man stumblin' down the street till his momma made him look away
C G D7 G
Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows
C G D7
Many are the good souls left alone
Em G Em G
Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again
C D7 C G
And the victims of the drunkard wait at home
C G
Daddy worked the oil fields all along the east Tex line
D7
Then he moved us all to Tulsa where his oil wells changed to wine
G C G
But I remember one Christmas evening oh Santa never showed
D7
And momma cried herself to sleep that night
Dm G
And my daddy came home with the load
C G D7 G
Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows
C G D7
Many are the good souls left alone
Em G Em G
Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again
C D7 G
And the victims of the drunkard wait at home
C G C G
My grandma?s dead and my daddy's drunk somewhere in Oklahoma
C G
And momma moved back to Texas long ago yeah
Em C G
Look at me here I am my daddy's only daughter
C D7
Sharin' little secrets with a man I barely know
C G D7 G
Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows
C G D7
Many are the good souls left alone
Em G Em G
Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again
C D7 C G
And the victims of the drunkard wait at home