Tonight the bottle let me down
And left your memory come around;
The one true friend I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down

Each night I leave the bar room when it's over
Not feeling any pain at closing time;
But tonight your memory found me much too sober
I couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind

Tonight the bottle let me down
And left your memory come around;
The one true friend 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
And lately I've been turnin' every day;
But the wine don't take effect the way it used to
And I'm hurtin' in an old familiar ways

Tonight the bottle let me down
And left 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...