Intro: B7 E
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She unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle, shuffles about in her candlelit hovel
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens she smells like the cat
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and the neighbours she sickens
E7 A
The black and white TV has long seen a picture; the cross on the wall is a permanent fixture
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The postman delivers the final reminders; she sells off her silver and poodles in China
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Drinks to remember I, me and myself, winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf
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Home is a love that I miss very much, so the past has been bottled and labelled with love
E B7
During the war time an American pilot made every air raid a time of excitement
She moved to his prairie and married the Texan, she learnt from a distance
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how love was a lesson
E7 A
He became drinker and she became mother, she knew that one day she'd be one or the other
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He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy, proud of her features, she kept herself pretty.
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Drinks to remember I, me and myself, winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf
E F#m B7 A G#m F#m E
Home is a love that I miss very much, so the past has been bottled and labelled with love
E B7
He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber out on the porch in the middle of summer
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So she crossed the ocean back home to her family but they had retired to roads that were sandy
E7 A
She moved home alone without friends or relations, lived in a world full of age reservation
B7
On moth eaten armchairs she'd say that she'd sod all the friends who had left
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her to drink from the bottle
E F#m B7 E
Drinks to remember I, me and myself, winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf
E F#m B7 A G#m F#m E
Home is a love that I miss very much, so the past has been bottled and labelled with love
E F#m B7 E
Drinks to remember I, me and myself, winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf
E F#m B7 A G#m F#m E
Home is a love that I miss very much, so the past has been bottled and labelled with love
B7 A G#m F#m E
The past has been bottled and labelled with love
B7 A G#m F#m E
The past has been bottled and la - belled with love