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