Tonalité : D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
F
He was not
my father’s brother
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But he wished that he could be
Gm
Told us kids to call him
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Uncle
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And we would be his family
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He had a wife
Verse 2
F
and kids in Fresno
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The youngest one was twenty-four
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Gm
Dad Dad had brought him
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into our house
Am
But they didn’t want him anymore
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Verse 3
F
He helped us work the
family business
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Building fences in the sun
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Dm
And worked just like a man of twenty
Am
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Till the working day was done
F
He and Dad would spend their
Verse 4
evening
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Sitting in lawn, chairs in the yard
Gm
Dm
Where they’d drink a toast to
Am
Seagram’s
Seagram’s never went
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down hard
Verse 5
Gm
Won’t you wake up, Uncle Lloyd
F
Got a lot of work today
Gm
Bb
We’ll get Don to make the coffee
F
Load that truck and be on your way
Verse 6
Eb
Friday night you can drive to Vegas
Dm
C
Bb
Maybe this time you will win
Gm
Dm
Buy a trailer by the river
Am
Bb
And you won’t have to work again
F
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Gm
Dm
Am
Verse 7
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F
He was sleeping in the workroom
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With a mattress on the floor
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Dm
When one night I heard him crying
Am
Bb
As I passed outside his door
Verse 8
F
He cried, "Rita, girl, I love you
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Rita, darling, please don’t go
Gm
I’ve tried hard to make
Dm
you happy
Am
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I’ve done everything I know"
Verse 9
F
Then I heard the bottle open
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Bb
The tipping up and putting down
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Dm
Heard the rustling of the covers
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And then he did not
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make a sound
Verse 10
F
I thought of thirty years of Rita
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Standing sternly by his side
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Dm
All the years of hanging in there
Am
And all the emptiness inside
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Verse 11
F
And I thought of how their children
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Have children of their own
Gm
And how a man at fifty-seven
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Winds Winds up
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living so alone
Verse 12
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Gm
Won’t you wake up, Uncle Lloyd
F
Got a lot of work today
Gm
Bb
We’ll get Don to make the coffee
F
Load that truck and be on your way
Verse 13
Eb
Friday night you can drive to Vegas
Dm
C
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Maybe this time you will win
Gm
Dm
Buy a trailer by the river
Am
Bb
And you won’t have to work again
Outro 1
Work again
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Dm
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C
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