Chords for Ain't Nothin' Like Whisky

_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
Yeah, like, [F#] you know [A] the answer to life is what you drink.
Since you [Em] asked me for a favor, _ [D] guess what I'm gonna [E] try to do.
_ [A] If I ain't got no money, I'll rob a steel-bunned, baked-by recruit.
I'm gonna try to get you some whiskey. _
I want you to have a very fine time.
If I can't get you scotch and bourbon,
I sure ain't gonna offer you no wine.
[D] Oh, Sam [D] Hopkins, _ I'm so glad [A] you're in my town.
[E] _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] I want you to drink [E] and have your fun _
[D] _ until, until, [A] until the deal goes down.
_ [Am] _
Let's go [E] out together like [A] that.
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[Am] _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _
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You know why [F#] I drink whiskey?
[E] _ _ [Am] Lord, I drink to keep from wearing.
_ [D] _ And I smile just to keep from [A] crying. _
[E] _ _ _ _ [D] Well, I didn't know General Brownley drinks to keep from wearing.
Joe, I smile [Am] just to keep from crying. _
_ _ [A] _ _ That's because I don't want [E] nobody to know.
[D] _ Well, well, just [A] what's on my mind.
About your worried life.
[F] Worried [A] life, did you hear that?
Someday, Brownley, he'll [E] tell you what's on his mind. No, no.
I [Am] drink so much whiskey until [Am] I stagger [B] in my sleep.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ Lord, [D] sonny, I drink so much whiskey
_ until I stagger, stagger in my sleep.
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ Lord, [E] I'm gonna keep on drinking
_ [D] _ until I please, until I [E] please, [A] until I please.
[Am] Got one more thing to say, buddy. _ _
[E] _ [A] Joe, don't you know if I ever get lucky and go to heaven, _
[Am] I want to sit [A] down in St.
Peter's chair. _ _ _
_ _ Lord, if I [D] ever get lucky and go to heaven,
Where you gonna sit at?
[A] I'm gonna sit down in St.
Peter's chair.
You'll never get [Am] down there.
Don't mess with my woman, if they do.
_ _ Lord, [E] the first thing I'm gonna ask St.
Peter,
_ [D] _ Have you got [E] any good drinking whiskey up here?
I [E] do, yeah.
_ _ [A] _ _ Well, me and old Brownley, _ [E] [D] yes, we are the best of [A] friends. _ _
_ _ Light a hot [D] vino, Brownley McGee, yes, we were the best [A] of friends.
No more?
No.
_ _ _ Well, you know, we can drink [E] more whiskey.
_ [D] _ Yes, I mean it, [A] for five minutes.
[F] Drink the rest of mine, because I like to take care of my own.
Well, when we in New York City in 1941,
[G#] [Am] I go to the store and buy a pint.
[A] Brownley, bring half a pint.
_ And I drink the rest, I say,
Hey, [D] Brownley, Lord, when we ever gonna get drunk?
[A] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [E] Well, we walk the streets all night, _
[D] Come back [A] home and leave it all behind.
I'm gonna talk.
[Em] _ Oh, yeah, let me [E] hear it, Sonny Terry.
You ain't buying no whiskey, Harry Mann.
I know you ain't buying a [Am] stick drunk [A] all the time.
Lord, how much can we do?
Talk to me, Joe. _
_ [D] Sonny, you ain't buying no whiskey, Harry Mann.
You better watch yourself, fella.
And your boys will stay drunk [A] all the time.
Talk to me. _ _ _
I don't [E] care how you drink your good whiskey, Sonny.
Uh-huh.
But you ain't buying a stick, don't [D] mess with that woman of mine.
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[E] Every [Am] time I meet you,
_ _ your boy walking down the street,
[A] he put in that old moonshine whiskey,
he's trying to talk trash to every woman you meet.
But you're a [D] whiskey, Harry Mann.
_ _ _ Stick drunk all the [A] time.
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