Wainwright Loudon

Wainwright Loudon - Drinking Song guitar chord

Author/Artist: Loudon Wainwright III

Title: Drinking Song

Album: Album III

Transcribed by: Ramsay Wallace

Email: RamsayW1@aol.com

Loudon seems to use a technique of alternating full & partial pressure on the chords to produce a type of palm muting effect with his strumming. This is similar to the version included on the Atlantic Recordings.

A 577655  Asus4 575755  C#m 446654 D x00323 Dm x00231  D/G xx0033

A                   Asus4

Drunk men stagger, drunk men fall

A                  Asus4

Drunk men swear & that's not all

C#m                               A

Quite often drunks will urinate outdoors

A                   Asus4

Like widowed women drunk men weep

A                       Asus4

Like children curled up drunk men sleep

C#m                                        A

Like a dog a drunk will crawl about on all fours

D

Be it broke bum or rich rake

     Dm

His dinner be it bread or cake

       D/G

His beverage be the worst of whiskey, finest wine

A                 Asus4

Puke it stinks & so it seems

A                  Asus4

A drunkard goes to great extremes

C#m                                          A

But there has yet to be a perfectly straight line

                                                                              

Drunks are strong & drunks are weak

It's easy for a drunk to speak

Straight from the heart

Drunks will fight, their not afraid

They'll kiss the mistress & make the maid

Oh, but it's a manly art

But it takes it toll on blood vessels & from there it will raise

Bags beneath the eyes & other signs

Drunks get ugly so it seems & drunks will go to great extremes

But there has yet to be a perfectly straight line.

Drunks are friendly when they're drunk

And drunks are hostile when they're drunk

Which drunk it is it all depends upon

When drunk men drink they thirst they thirst for drink

Their elephants are grey not pink

When the drink evaporates the man is gone, gone, gone

Back to the flats & the subway cars

To the hipflasks & the fruit jars

Flat on thier face & flat on their backs

Drunks get drunk & so it seems

That drunks will go to great extremes

But there has yet to be a perfectly straight line

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