Round And Round The Bottle

A D A Grandma was a pretty thing when she was just sixteen E7 She fell in love with a full grown man who ran off with a barroom queen A My daddy was just a baby then but he remembers to this day F#m E7 A His old man stumblin' down the street till his momma made him look away D A E7 A Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows D A E7 Many are the good souls left alone F#m A F#m A Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again D E7 D A And the victims of the drunkard wait at home D A Daddy worked the oil fields all along the east Tex line E7 Then he moved us all to Tulsa where his oil wells changed to wine A D A But I remember one Christmas evening oh Santa never showed E7 And momma cried herself to sleep that night Em A And my daddy came home with the load D A E7 A Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows D A E7 Many are the good souls left alone F#m A F#m A Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again D E7 A And the victims of the drunkard wait at home D A D A My grandma's dead and my daddy's drunk somewhere in Oklahoma D A And momma moved back to Texas long ago yeah F#m D A Look at me here I am my daddy's only daughter D E7 Sharin' little secrets with a man I barely know D A E7 A Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows D A E7 Many are the good souls left alone F#m A F#m A Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again D E7 D A And the victims of the drunkard wait at home