Waylon Jennings - Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down guitar chord

Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down--Waylon Jennings

written by Merle Haggard

From the album "I've Always Been Crazy"

Thanks to CowboyUp for the basic chords. While I don't agree with Waylon's "flip

of the bird" to the Hag near the end of the song, I have to admit, he sings the hell

out of this one. And few can play steel like Ralph Mooney.

NOTE: On the D...I play a pattern of D, D/A, and D/F#, but it's not necessary.

INTRO: D D/A A D A D/A

D

Each night I leave the barroom when it's over

A

Not feeling any pain at closin' time

But tonight your memory found me much too sober

A7 D

I couldn't drink enough to get you offa my mind

CHORUS:

D

Tonight the bottle let me down

A

Let your memory come around

The one true friend that I thought I'd found

D

Tonight the bottle let me down

SOLO

I've always had a bottle that I could turn to

Lately I've been turnin' every day

But the booze don't take affect the way it used to

I keep a hurting in old familiar ways

CHORUS

(Ralph Mooney!)

(Eat your heart out, Haggard!)

SOLO

CHORUS (fade)

CHORDS:

A x0222x

A7 x02020

D xx0232

D/A x00232

D/F# 2x0232