Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

x|x|0|2|3|2

x|0|2|2|2|0

x|x|0|2|1|2

3|5|5|4|3|3

2|4|4|2|2|2

0|2|2|0|0|0

0|2|2|0|3|0

Intro

 She unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle

 And shuffles about in her candle lit hovel,

 Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens

 She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens,

 The black and white t.v. has long seen a picture

 The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture,

 The postman delivers the final reminders

 She sells off her silver and poodles in china.

Chorus

 Drinks to remember, I me and myself

 And winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf

 Home is a love that I miss very much

 So the past has been bottled and labelled with love.

During the war time an american pilot

 Made every air raid a time of excitement,

 She moved to his prairie and married the texan

 She learnt from a distance how love was a lesson,

 He became drinker and she became mother

 She knew that one day she'd be one or the other,

 He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy

 Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty.

(Chorus)

He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber

 Out on the porch in the middle of summer,

 She crossed the ocean back home to her family

 But they had retired to roads that were sandy,

 She moved home alone without friends or relations

Lived in a world full of age reservation,

 On moth eaten armchairs she'd say that she's sod all

 The friends who had left her to drink from the bottle.

Chorus x2

 The past has been bottled and labelled with love

 The past h________as been bottled..... and labelled with love

(Fade out)

 (I think it might play the chorus chords while fading. I end on )