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