Misery and Gin

Merle Haggard

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Misery and Gin

Written by John Durrill/Tommy "Snuff" Garrett

Key: D

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	  		Verse 1:  

F  
Memories and drinks don't mix too well.  
                                             Bb     G7  
And jukebox records don't play those wedding bells.  
C/G  
Starin' at the world through the bottom of a glass,  
                                F     C C/B C/Bb C/E  
All I see is a man who's fading fast.  

Verse 2: 
  
F  
Tonight I need that woman again.  
                                       Bb  G7  
What I'd give for my baby to just walk in.  
C/G  
Sit down beside me and say it's alright.  
                                       F      C C/B  C/Bb C/E  
Take me home and make sweet love to me tonight.  
F              Cm           Bb       G  
But here I am again, mixin' misery and gin.  
             C               C7           F  
Sittin' with all my friends and talkin' to myself.  
  Bb                      A                 Dm   Dm/C  Dm/B   G7  
I look like I'm havin' a good time but any fool can tell,  
          F                                 Bb  C       F     C C/B C/Bb C/E  
That this Honkytonk Heaven really makes ya' feel like hell.
  

Verse 3:  

F  
I light a lonely womans cigarette,  
                                            Bb  G7  
We both start talkin' 'bout what we want to forget.  
C  
Her life story and mine are the same.  
                                                F    C C/B C/Bb C/E  
We both lost someone and only have ourselves to blame.  

Chorus

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