Labelled
with love (1981)
A - D
D
1. She unscrews the top of a new whisky bottle,
A
and shuffles about in her candle lit hovel,
A
like
some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens,
D
she smells like the cat, and the neighbors
she sickens.
D
The black
and white T.V. has long seen a picture,
D7 G
the
cross on the wall is a permanent fixture.
A
The postman
delivers the final reminders,
G D
she tells of her silver and poodles in China.
D Em
Drinks to remember, I, me and myself,
A
D
and
winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf.
D
Em
Home is a love that I miss very much,
A G D
so
the past has been bottled and labelled with love.
D
2. During the war time, an
American pilot
A
made every air raid a time of excitement.
A
She moved to his prairie and
married the Texan,
D
she learned from a distance how love was a lesson.
D
He became drinker and she
became mother,
D7 G
she
knew that one day she‘d be one or the other.
A
He ate
himself older, drunk himself dizzy,
G D
proud
of her features, she kept herself pretty.
D Em
Drinks to remember, I, me and myself,
A D
and
winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf.
D Em
Home is a love that I miss very much,
A
G D
so
the past has been bottled and labelled with love.
D
3. He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber,
A
out on the porch in the middle of summer.
A
She crossed the ocean back
home to her family,
D
but they had retired to roads that were sandy.
D
She moved home alone without
friends and relations,
D7 G
lived in
a world full of age reservation,
A
on moth
eaten armchairs she‘d say that she‘s sod all,
G D
the
friends who had left her to drink from the bottle.
+
CHORUS (2x)
A G D
+ The
past has been bottled and labelled with love.
A G F#m A D
The past has been bottled and
labelled with love.
( orig. =
capo 2nd (The Squeeze)