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Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down

recorded by George Jones and
Merle Haggard

Intro - Last 2 lines of chorus

Each night I leave the barroom when it's over

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Not feeling any pain at closing	time

But tonight your memory found me much to sober

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Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my	mind

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To	night the bottle let down

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and let you memory come a	round

The one true friend I thought I'd found

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Tonight the bottle let	down

Instrumental Interlude - two versus
(one with guitar only and one with fiddle and guitar lead)

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I've a	lways had a bottle I could turn to

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And lately I've been turning every	day

But the wine don't take effect the way it used to

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And I'm hurting in an old familiar w	ay

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To	night the bottle let down

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and let you memory come a	round

The one true friend I thought I'd found

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Tonight the bottle let	down

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To	night the bottle let	down