Rye Whiskey chords by Guy Clark

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Verse 1
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This is an old cowboy song, which is,
I mean it's a real old cowboy song
that's it's like a song, you know,
some songs you've heard all your life
and they just become kind of trite to you,
you know,
like Red River Valley
and America the beautiful.
Things like that.
And this is a song
that had always struck me that way.
Till I read it one day.
Anyway, it's really an old cowboy song
and it's a song called Rye Whiskey
and if you'd like to sing along.
Please do.
I kind of have to think of it as a hymn.
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey,
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rye whiskey, I cry.
If I don't get rye whiskey,
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surely will die.
If the ocean were whiskey,
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I  was a duck,
swim to the bottom
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and I never come up.
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey,
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rye whiskey, I cry.
If I don't get rye whiskey,
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surely will die.
That's beefsteak when
I'm hungry,
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rye whiskey when I'm dry,
greenbacks when I'm part
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of religion when I die.
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey,
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rye whiskey
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I cry, if I don't get rye whiskey
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I surely will die.
Now for workin' I'm too lazy,
beggin's too low,
train robbin's too risky,
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so to gamblin' I'll go.
Rye whisky, rye whisky,
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rye whisky, I cry
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If I don't get a rye whisky,
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I surely will die
I drink my own whisky
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and I drink my own wine
Then thousands of bottles
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of killin' my time
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey,
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rye whiskey, I cry
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If I don't get rye whiskey,
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surely we'll die
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Whiskey, devil, you're no friend to me
You killed my old daddy,
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god damn, you tried me
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Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey, I
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If I don't get right whiskey,
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I surely will die