Kunci: D major
Intro 1
D
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Bm
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Verse 1
my father’s brother
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D
But he wished that he could be
Bm
Told us kids to call him
C#m
And we would be his family
Verse 2
G
The youngest one was twenty-four
D
Bm
Dad Dad had brought him
C#m
But they didn’t want him anymore
D
Verse 3
family business
G
D
Building fences in the sun
Bm
F#m
And worked just like a man of twenty
C#m
D
Till the working day was done
A
He and Dad would spend their
Verse 4
evening
G
D
Sitting in lawn, chairs in the yard
Bm
F#m
Where they’d drink a toast to
C#m
Seagram’s
Seagram’s never went
Verse 5
Bm
Won’t you wake up, Uncle Lloyd
Bm
D
We’ll get Don to make the coffee
A
Load that truck and be on your way
Verse 6
G
Friday night you can drive to Vegas
F#m
E
D
Maybe this time you will win
Bm
F#m
Buy a trailer by the river
C#m
D
And you won’t have to work again
A
G
D
Bm
F#m
C#m
Verse 7
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A
He was sleeping in the workroom
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D
With a mattress on the floor
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F#m
When one night I heard him crying
C#m
D
As I passed outside his door
Verse 8
A
He cried, "Rita, girl, I love you
G
D
Rita, darling, please don’t go
Bm
I’ve tried hard to make
F#m
you happy
C#m
D
I’ve done everything I know"
Verse 9
A
Then I heard the bottle open
G
D
The tipping up and putting down
Bm
F#m
Heard the rustling of the covers
C#m
And then he did not
Verse 10
A
I thought of thirty years of Rita
G
D
Standing sternly by his side
Bm
F#m
All the years of hanging in there
C#m
And all the emptiness inside
D
Verse 11
A
And I thought of how their children
G
D
Have children of their own
Bm
And how a man at fifty-seven
C#m
D
living so alone
Verse 12
D
Bm
Won’t you wake up, Uncle Lloyd
Bm
D
We’ll get Don to make the coffee
A
Load that truck and be on your way
Verse 13
G
Friday night you can drive to Vegas
F#m
E
D
Maybe this time you will win
Bm
F#m
Buy a trailer by the river
C#m
D
And you won’t have to work again
Outro 1
Work again
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Bm
F#m
C#m
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