Darrell Scott - Uncle Lloyd guitar chord

Uncle Lloyd

By Darrell Scott

Capo 2

G F C

He was not my father’s brother but he wished that he could be

Am Em Dsus2 C

Told us kids to call him uncle and we would be his family

G F C

He had a wife and kids in Fresno, the youngest one was twenty-four

Am Em Dsus2 C

Dad had brought him into our house, they didn’t want him anymore

G F C

He helped us work the family business building fences in the sun

Am Em Dsus2 C

Worked just like a man of twenty ‘til the working day was done

G F C

He and Dad would spend their evening sitting in lawn chairs in the yard

Am Em Dsus2 C

Where they’d drink a toast to Seagram’s, Seagram’s never went down hard

Chorus:

Em G

Won’t you wake up Uncle Lloyd, got a lot of work today

Em C G

We’ll get Don to make the coffee, load that truck and be on your way

Am G C

Friday night you can drive to Vegas, maybe this time you will win

Am Em Dsus2 C

Buy a trailer by the river and you won’t have to work again

Steel solo

G F C

He was sleeping in the workroom with a mattress on the floor

Am Em Dsus2 C

When one night I heard him crying as I passed outside his door

G F C

He cried, "Rita, girl I love you, Rita, Darling please don’t go

Am Em Dsus2 C

I’ve tried hard to make you happy | I’ve done everything I know"

G F C

Then I heard the bottle open, the tipping up and putting down

Am Em Dsus2 C

Heard the rustling of the covers then he did not make a sound

G F C

I thought of thirty years of Rita standing sternly by his side

Am Em Dsus2 C

All the years of hanging in there, all the emptiness inside

G F C

And I thought of how their children have children of their own

Am Em Dsus2 C

And how a man at fifty-seven winds up living so alone

Chorus