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