G                               C               G
Grandma was a pretty thing when she was just sixteen

                                                                  D7
She fell in love with a full grown man who ran off with a barroom queen

   G
My daddy was just a baby then but he remembers to this day

                      Em                       D7                  G
His old man stumblin' down the street till his momma made him look away


C                   G           D7             G
Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows

C            G               D7
Many are the good souls left alone

Em                  G                    Em         G
Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again

        C              D7               C  G
And the victims of the drunkard wait at home


                                C                  G
Daddy worked the oil fields all along the east Tex line

                                                             D7
Then he moved us all to Tulsa where his oil wells changed to wine

      G                                 C           G
But I remember one Christmas evening oh Santa never showed

                   D7
And momma cried herself to sleep that night
 
       Dm                       G
And my daddy came home with the load


C                   G           D7             G
Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows

C            G               D7
Many are the good souls left alone

Em                  G                    Em         G
Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again

        C              D7               G
And the victims of the drunkard wait at home


   C                     G             C                G
My grandma’s dead and my daddy's drunk somewhere in Oklahoma

                        C          G
And momma moved back to Texas long ago yeah

Em                      C            G
Look at me here I am my daddy's only daughter

               C                           D7
Sharin' little secrets with a man I barely know


C                   G           D7             G
Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows

C            G               D7
Many are the good souls left alone

Em                  G                    Em         G
Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again

        C              D7               C  G
And the victims of the drunkard wait at home