Chords for eTown Finale with Marty Stuart & Cassandra Jenkins - Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down

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_ [Em] Well, finales are [E] tricky [Ab] deals.
Everybody has worn out certain [G] songs over the years and everybody says, [D] what do you
want to do?
And the standard [Eb] answer is, I don't know, what do you want to do?
I don't know, what do you want to do?
But Nick just [D] started pitching [Bm] titles and genres and [A] I think I heard [G] Cassandra say something
[Gb] about The Bottle Let Me [F] Down and I went, oh, all right, [D] there you go.
I've been singing The Bottle Let Me _ _ _ Down.
We found that as being like a great common ground for [E] kind of what I do and what they
do and of [F] course, the minute [G] I mentioned it, they've played that song probably hundreds
and hundreds of times.
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] That's a good [Ab] sing-along.
Everybody knows it.
It leaves the room with [G] a good feeling.
[B] _ _ But [A] again, the power of music, you know.
A young [C] lady, she is from New York City.
How did Merle Haggard's song, Drift Across the Breeze from [F] Bakersfield, California, find
its way into her heart?
I don't know.
It's a [D] magic carpet.
Music is so cool. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ feel pretty bashful coming in, being like a city fan, _ _ coming in [Ab] and singing.
But [G] _ the fact [F] is, we all love Merle [A] Haggard [Eb] and we love that song.
It's fun [A] to sing.
I think [Eb] that song has to be like a little raw, I guess.
_ [A] And it was too high for Marty [D] to sing in my [A] octave, _ so we [D] decided he said, _ _ don't worry,
I'll just [E] Louis Armstrong Cassandra.
[C] And that's what he did.
We did this little [Abm] kind of playful [E] _ _ _
[D] dialogue duet.
But he didn't do it too much [Eb] during our sound check, which I like, because it meant that
whatever [D] he said when we were performing was a little bit of [E] a surprise. _ _
_ It's just _ fun [D] to feel that [Bm] playfulness in somebody I've only just met and somebody that
I really admire.
_ _ [C] It was [Ab] organic.
It was nice.
It was wonderful.
Everybody [F] was smiling.
The room was singing [E] along.
Can't beat that. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ That's probably too high for me, but go ahead.
Can you imagine? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] Everything.
Yeah. _
_ _ But the wine don't make a thing. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Cassandra, you are_ _ _ _
Hurting in an old familiar _ way.
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_ _ Tonight the bottle _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ let your memory _ _ _ [B] pass _ _ _ _ _ the water. _
_ _ [G] I'm Nick Forrester.
Hope you can be with us next week right here in E-Town. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Each night I leave the bar room when it's so _ _ blue. _
_ Not feeling any pain of any [D] kind. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Tonight your memory found me much too soon.
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Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my [G] mind. _ _ _ _
_ _ Tonight _ _ the bottle let me down. _
_ _ _ _ _ And let _ your memory come [D] to hand. _ _ _ _
The one _ true friend I thought I had found.
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[D] _ _ _ _ Tonight _ _ the bottle let me [Gm] down.
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_ _ _ _ _ How about a hand for lonesome Nick? _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I've _ always had a bottle I could turn to.
How often do you drink, ladies?
_ Well, lately I've been turning _ every [D] day.
Does it still do you a good job? _ _
Well, the wine don't take effect the way it used to.
Are you still hurting, baby?
And I'm hurting in an old familiar [G] way. _
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Tonight the _ bottle let me down. _ _ _ _ _
_ And _ let your _ memory come [D] to _ _ hand.
_ _ The one _ true friend I thought I had found.
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Tonight _ _ the bottle let me [G] down. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Tonight the _ _ bottle let me down. _ _ _ _ _
And _ _ let your memory come [D] to _ hand. _
_ _ _ The _ one true friend I thought I had found.
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Tonight _ _ the bottle _ [A]
let me [G] down. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] Tonight _ _ the bottle let me [G] down. _ _
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[Eb] Marty Stewart and his band, _ _ Cassandra [B] Jenkins,
[C] Helen Forster, the E [D]-Tones, _ [Bb] our engineers, [G] volunteers, _
_ _ _ thanks so much. _ _
Stay in touch.
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