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