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