Bottle Let Me Down

(Merle Haggard)



Each night I leave the barroom when it's over

Not feeling any pain at closin' time

But tonight your mem'ry found me much too sober

I couldn't drink enough to get you off my mind.



Tonight the bottle let me down

Let your mem'ry come around

The one true friend that I thought I'd found

Tonight the bottle let me down.



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I've always had a bottle I could turn to

Lately I've been turning every day

But the booze don't take effect the way it used to

I keep a hurtin' in an old familiar way.



Tonight the bottle let me down

Let your mem'ry come around

The one true friend that I thought I'd found

Tonight the bottle let me down.



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Tonight the bottle let me down

Let your mem'ry come around

The one true friend that I thought I'd found

Tonight the bottle let me down...