#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # From: GEORGE_RICHARDSON@HP-LakeStevens-om2.om.hp.com <GEORGE_RICHARDSON@HP-LakeStevens-om2.om.hp.com> Date: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 8:43 AM Subject: Song Submission LIFE OF WINE AND ROSES Recorded By: Merle Haggard Submitted by: George Richardson This song was recorded on the Best of Merle Haggard CD. I don't know what key he sang it in but this works for me. Because of my voice range I put a Fret Bar across the second Fret. (C) Once I lived a life of (F) wine and (C)Roses. I (G7) drank a lot back then for one (C) concern. Success for me lay (F) just around the corner. I thought my (G7) social friends would help me make the (C) turn. CHORUS: (C) Now I'm paying for the (F) days of wine and (C) and roses. A (G7) victim of the drunken life I (C) chose. Now all my social (F) friends look down their (C) noses. Cause I (G7) kept the wine and through away the (C) rose. Interlude: (C, F, C, G7, C) (C) I stood by and watched the (F) bottle take (C) control of me. The (G7) turn I made was not the one I (C) planned. And I watched my social (F) standing slip (C) away from me. While I (G7) watched the bottle slowly take (C) command. (repeat chorus)