Tonart: D major
Intro 1
B
F#
E
B
G#m
D#m
A#m
B
Verse 1
my father’s brother
E
B
But he wished that he could be
G#m
Told us kids to call him
A#m
And we would be his family
Verse 2
E
The youngest one was twenty-four
B
G#m
Dad Dad had brought him
A#m
But they didn’t want him anymore
B
Verse 3
F#
He helped us work the
family business
E
B
Building fences in the sun
G#m
D#m
And worked just like a man of twenty
A#m
B
Till the working day was done
F#
He and Dad would spend their
Verse 4
evening
E
B
Sitting in lawn, chairs in the yard
G#m
D#m
Where they’d drink a toast to
A#m
Seagram’s
Seagram’s never went
Verse 5
G#m
Won’t you wake up, Uncle Lloyd
F#
Got a lot of work today
G#m
B
We’ll get Don to make the coffee
F#
Load that truck and be on your way
Verse 6
E
Friday night you can drive to Vegas
D#m
C#
B
Maybe this time you will win
G#m
D#m
Buy a trailer by the river
A#m
B
And you won’t have to work again
F#
E
B
G#m
D#m
A#m
Verse 7
B
F#
He was sleeping in the workroom
E
B
With a mattress on the floor
G#m
D#m
When one night I heard him crying
A#m
B
As I passed outside his door
Verse 8
F#
He cried, "Rita, girl, I love you
E
B
Rita, darling, please don’t go
G#m
I’ve tried hard to make
D#m
you happy
A#m
B
I’ve done everything I know"
Verse 9
F#
Then I heard the bottle open
E
B
The tipping up and putting down
G#m
D#m
Heard the rustling of the covers
A#m
And then he did not
Verse 10
F#
I thought of thirty years of Rita
E
B
Standing sternly by his side
G#m
D#m
All the years of hanging in there
A#m
And all the emptiness inside
B
Verse 11
F#
And I thought of how their children
E
B
Have children of their own
G#m
And how a man at fifty-seven
A#m
B
living so alone
Verse 12
B
G#m
Won’t you wake up, Uncle Lloyd
F#
Got a lot of work today
G#m
B
We’ll get Don to make the coffee
F#
Load that truck and be on your way
Verse 13
E
Friday night you can drive to Vegas
D#m
C#
B
Maybe this time you will win
G#m
D#m
Buy a trailer by the river
A#m
B
And you won’t have to work again
Outro 1
Work again
F#
E
B
G#m
D#m
A#m
B
F#
E
B
D#m
G#m
D#m
A#m
B
C#
C#m
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