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