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If Drinking Don't Kill Me

Biography:

By most accounts, George Jones (born George Glenn Jones September 12, 1931 in Saratoga, Texas, died April 26, 2013, in Nashville, Tennessee), was the finest vocalist in the recorded history of country music. Initially, he was a hardcore honky tonker in the tradition of Hank Williams, but over the course of his career he developed an affecting, nuanced ballad style. In the course of his career, he never left the top of the country charts, even as he suffered innumerable personal and professional difficulties.

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If Drinking Don't Kill Me
recorded by George Jones [3/4 time]
written by Harlan Sanders and Rick Baresford

C
The bars are all closed
F C
It's four in the morning

Must have shut 'em all down
G7
By the shape that I'm in

C
I lay my head on the wheel
F C
And the horn begins honking

The whole neighborhood knows
G7 C
That I'm home drunk again

F C
And if drinking don't k-ill me
G7
Her memory will
F G7
I can't hold out much long-er
C
The way that I feel

F C
With the blood from my bo-dy
F
I could start my own still
C
And if drinking don't kill me
G7 C
Her memory will

These will old bones they move slow
F C
But so sure of their footsteps

As I trip on the floor
G7
And I lightly touch down

C
Lord it's been ten bottles
F C
Since I tried to forget her

But the memory still lingers
G7 C
Lying here on the ground