Wainwright Loudon - Down Drinking At The Bar guitar tab

Author/Artist: Loudon Wainwright III

Title: Down Drinking at the Bar

Album: A Live One

Transcribed by: Ramsay Wallace

Email: RamsayW1@aol.com

This is the live version performed by Loudon on 'A Live One'

The riff below is repeated throughout the verse. The chords are played palm muted (pm).

E   Epm           A Apm      E   Epm            A    Apm

----0-----|-----------0----|----------0-----|-----------0----

----0-3-0-|-----------2-3-0|----------0-3-0-|-----------2-3-0

----1-----|-----------2----|------0-1-1-----|-----------2----

--2-2-----|------0--2-2----|----------2-----|------0--2-2----

----2-----|-0h2p0--0-------|-0h2p0----2-----|-0h2p0--0-------

-0--------|----------------|-------0--------|----------------

E                     A

I call you up on the phone

E            A

Nobody's at home

E                A

So I do my usual thing

E                          A

I let the telephone ring & ring & ring & ring

    E                        A

I'm standing here in this phone booth

  E                    A

Coping with the ugly truth

Chorus

B7

I know where you are

  A

I know where you are

  A                          E

You're down drinking at the bar

I can picture you there on that stool

Drinking like a drunken fool

Sitting there on your ass, Muttering into your glass

Your paying for your low life thrills with wet quarters, soggy one dollar bills

Chorus

Dean Martin's on the juke box I bet

Or maybe it's Tammy Wynnette

The tear jerkers are jerking your tears,

Salt watering your whiskeys & your beers

You got the Miller high life bouncing balls

You got the Unica club waterfalls

Chorus

Go ahead get drunk it's alright

Lost weekend on a Tuesday night

But I'm going to have to give you the score

I'm not going to call you up on the telephone no more

I'm sick & tired listening to that phone ring fifteen times

I'm sick & tired getting back my dime

Chorus