Bury The Bottle With Me chords by Burl Ives

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Verse 1
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 (A minor) Ooohh  (C major)  (A minor)  (C major) 
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There's a stone in yonder graveyard  (A minor) 
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With  (C major) my name carved in it deep
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It don't  (F major) tell my life  (C major) story
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These  (F major) things it can't re (C major) peat
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I never had a  (A minor) family
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I  (C major) never took a wife
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All  (F major) I  had was a  (C major) bottle
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And I  (F major) drank away my  (C major) life
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So  (A minor) bury the bottle with me,
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for  (C major) it's what tore me down
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So that  (F major) I  won't be alone  (C major) tonight
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When they  (F major) put me in the  (C major) ground
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When they  (F major) lower my body down  (C major) 
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A drunkard is a  (A minor) sinner
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On  (C major) this I place no doubt
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Oh,  (F major) the Lord won't share His  (C major) palace
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with the things  (F major) he lives without  (C major) 
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for the bottle is the dev (A minor) il
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and  (C major) drinking is his name now
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the bottle  (F major) is what took  (C major) my soul
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and  (F major) petrified my  (C major) brain  (A minor) 
the bottle with me,
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for  (C major) it's what tore me down,
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so that  (F major) I  won't be alone  (C major) tonight,
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when they  (F major) put me in the  (C major) ground,
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when they  (F major) lower my body down.  (C major)  (A minor)  (C major) 
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