Chords for Whiskey Lullaby - Jessi Alexander & Jon Randall (London, 2015)

Probably the most known saddest songwriters in Nashville.
We write really sad songs.
We actually
have there is a website with the top 10 most sad songs the country music history ever written and
I won.
I'm number one.
[F] He's number two.
[Bb] I'm very proud of that [N] honor.
Trust me.
I grew up on George Jones,
[G] Loretta Lynn.
Some [Eb] of the great sad song [G] writers.
Yeah, [C] so I take [Ab] pride in this but this song really is deserving to win because
[E] not only does he kill one person he kills two [F] people.
And for my next song I'm working [N] on dogs.
No, no, no, no, don't kill dogs.
[F] That'll win.
Off limits.
[Bb] No, [N] actually I wrote this with
the legendary Whisperin' Bill Anderson.
He taught me how to write country songs back when I was a young staff writer [F] at Sony and
and we wrote this song together.
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_ [F] _ He was a man of time, but [Dm] he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind [C] until the night [F] that Momma Tuesday [C] pulled the trigger.
_ [Dm] The fire drank away her [Bb] memory.
_ [F] Life is short, this time it was [C] bigger than [Dm] the strength he had to get up off [Bb] his knees.
[F] He found her with his face [C] down in the pillow.
_ [Dm] With an oath that said I'll love her till [Bb] I die.
_ _ [F] Then they married him [Am] beneath the willow.
[Bb] The angels sing a whiskey lullaby.
[Dm]
La la la la la la_
La la la [F] la la la [Dm] la la_
La la la la la la la la la_
La la la [F] la la la [Bb] la la la_
The woman saying _
[Bb] nobody knew how much he blamed [Dm] herself.
_ [F] _
She _ tried to hide the whiskey [C] on her head. _
[Dm] Finally drank her pain away [F] a little at a time.
[Dm] But she never could get drunk enough [F] to him off her mind [C] till the night.
She [F] put that bottle to her head [C] and pulled the trigger.
_ [Dm] Finally drank away his [Bb] memory.
_ [F] Life is short but this [C] time it was bigger.
[Dm] Than the strength she had to get up off [Bbm] her knees.
_ [F] Found her with her face down [C] in the pillow. _
[Dm] Read through his picture [Bb] for dear life.
[F] Then danced to him from [C] beneath the willow.
[Bb] While the angels sang a whiskey [Dm] lullaby.
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