INTRO [A] [A] [G] [D] [A] [A] [G] [D] VERSE 1 [A] [A] [G] [D] He was nearly died, when he returned to the town where he'd come from [A] [A] [G] [D] He's brown baggin' it tonight, behind some tavern [A] [A] [G] [D] Somebody wrecked his life, and I bet you it was his darlin’ [A] [A] [G] [D] Somebody wrecked his life, and I bet you it was his darlin' CHORUS [D] [A] [G] So he drank like a river when their wedding bells rang [D] [A] [G] Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang [D] [A] [G] Died in the gutter on his feet and his hands [D] [A] [D] Same hands that once touched her face DF RAIN, same as intro [A] [A] [G] [D] [A] [A] [G] [D] VERSE 2 [A] [A] [G] [D] He was nearly died, when he returned to the town he'd come from [A] [A] [G] [D] He's hanging out drinking beer with his brother in-law [A] [A] [G] [D] He was a drinker at night and in the morning he was unnerving [A] [A] [G] [D] He was a drinker both times of day that he lost his darlin' CHORUS [D] [A] [G] So he drank like a river when their wedding bells rang [D] [A] [G] Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang [D] [A] [G] Died in the gutter on his feet and his hands [D] [A] [D] Same hands that once touched her face DF RAIN/G O [A] [A] [G] [D] [A] [A] [G] [D] [A] [A] [G] [D] [A] [A] [G] [D] CHORUS [D] [A] [G] So he drank like a river when their wedding bells rang [D] [A] [G] Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang [D] [A] [G] Died in the gutter on his feet and his hands [D] [A] [D] Same hands that once touched her face