Bury The Bottle With Me Chords by Dick Curless
Tempo:
90.3 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[G] [Em]
[G] [Em]
There's a stone in [Em] yonder graveyard [G] with my name carved in it deep.
It [C] don't tell my [G] life story.
[C] These things it [G] can't repeat.
I never [Em] had a family.
[G] I never took a wife.
All [C] I had [G] was a bottle [C] and I drank away [G] my life.
[Em] So bury the bottle with me [G] for it's what tore me down [C] so I won't be [G] alone.
When [C] they put me [G] in the ground, [C] when they lower [G] my body down,
a drunkard [Em] is a sinner.
[G] On this I place no doubt.
[C] Oh the Lord won't [G] share his palace [C] with the things he [G] lives without.
For the bottle [Em] is the devil [G] and drinking is his name.
[C] Now the bottle is [G] what took my soul [C] and petrified [G] my brain.
[Em] So bury the bottle with me [G] for it's what tore me down so [C] I won't be [G] alone tonight.
[C] When they put me [G] in the ground, when [C] they lower my [G] body down,
[G] [Em]
There's a stone in [Em] yonder graveyard [G] with my name carved in it deep.
It [C] don't tell my [G] life story.
[C] These things it [G] can't repeat.
I never [Em] had a family.
[G] I never took a wife.
All [C] I had [G] was a bottle [C] and I drank away [G] my life.
[Em] So bury the bottle with me [G] for it's what tore me down [C] so I won't be [G] alone.
When [C] they put me [G] in the ground, [C] when they lower [G] my body down,
a drunkard [Em] is a sinner.
[G] On this I place no doubt.
[C] Oh the Lord won't [G] share his palace [C] with the things he [G] lives without.
For the bottle [Em] is the devil [G] and drinking is his name.
[C] Now the bottle is [G] what took my soul [C] and petrified [G] my brain.
[Em] So bury the bottle with me [G] for it's what tore me down so [C] I won't be [G] alone tonight.
[C] When they put me [G] in the ground, when [C] they lower my [G] body down,
Key:
G
C
Em
G
C
Em
G
C
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ There's a stone in [Em] yonder graveyard _ [G] with my name carved in it deep.
It [C] don't tell my [G] life story.
_ [C] These things it [G] can't repeat.
_ _ I never [Em] had a family.
_ [G] I never took a wife.
All [C] I had _ [G] was a bottle _ [C] and I drank away [G] my _ life.
_ _ _ [Em] So bury the bottle with me [G] for it's what tore me _ down [C] so I won't be _ [G] alone.
When [C] they put me [G] in the ground, _ [C] when they lower [G] my body down,
a _ _ _ _ drunkard [Em] is a sinner.
_ _ [G] On this I place no doubt.
[C] Oh the Lord won't [G] share his palace [C] with the things he [G] lives without.
_ _ For the bottle [Em] is the devil _ [G] and drinking _ is his _ name.
[C] Now the bottle is [G] what took my soul [C] and petrified [G] my brain.
_ _ _ _ [Em] So bury the bottle with me [G] for it's what tore me down so [C] I won't be [G] alone tonight.
[C] When they put me [G] in the ground, when [C] they lower my [G] body down, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ There's a stone in [Em] yonder graveyard _ [G] with my name carved in it deep.
It [C] don't tell my [G] life story.
_ [C] These things it [G] can't repeat.
_ _ I never [Em] had a family.
_ [G] I never took a wife.
All [C] I had _ [G] was a bottle _ [C] and I drank away [G] my _ life.
_ _ _ [Em] So bury the bottle with me [G] for it's what tore me _ down [C] so I won't be _ [G] alone.
When [C] they put me [G] in the ground, _ [C] when they lower [G] my body down,
a _ _ _ _ drunkard [Em] is a sinner.
_ _ [G] On this I place no doubt.
[C] Oh the Lord won't [G] share his palace [C] with the things he [G] lives without.
_ _ For the bottle [Em] is the devil _ [G] and drinking _ is his _ name.
[C] Now the bottle is [G] what took my soul [C] and petrified [G] my brain.
_ _ _ _ [Em] So bury the bottle with me [G] for it's what tore me down so [C] I won't be [G] alone tonight.
[C] When they put me [G] in the ground, when [C] they lower my [G] body down, _ _ _ _
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