The Bottle Let Me Down         (by Merle Haggard)


D
Each night I leave the barroom when it's over
                                A
Not feeling any pain at closing time
      A7
But tonight you memory found me much too sober
                                         D
Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind


CHORUS:
  D                         
Tonight the bottle let down
                         A
and let you memory come around
    A7
The one true friend I thought I'd found
                       D
Tonight the bottle let down 


D
I've always had a bottle I could turn to
                                   A
And lately I've been turning every day
        A7
But the wine don't take effect the way it used to
                                   D
And I'm hurting in an old familiar way


[repeat CHORUS]

[ending:]
   A7                  D
Tonight the bottle let down 


lyrics found on the internet
chords added by Alan Sigman (alansigman@earthlink.net)
please email me with any corrections or different interpretations.