Bottle Let Me Down

(Merle Haggard)



Each night I'd leave the barroom when it's over

Not feeling any pain at closing time

But tonight your memory found me much to sober

Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind.



Chorus:

Tonight the bottle let me down

and let your memory come around

The one true friend i thought I'd found

Tonight the bottle let me down.



--- Instrumental ---



I've always had a bottle I could turn to

and lately I've been turning everday

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

And I'm hurting in an old familar way.



Chorus:

Tonight the bottle let me down

and let your memory come around

The one true friend i thought I'd found

Tonight the bottle let me down.



Tonight the bottle let me down...