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