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