Gordon Lightfoot – Drink Yer Glasses Empty (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Chords

## NOTE: ~ = Walk-Down from C to Am ## CAPO: 2nd Fret [INTRO:] G [VERSE 1:]
                   C                    G   D  G
Listen up and I'll tell you what you'll do 

             C    D            G
Forget about music and alcohol too 

   C                           Am             D
Forget about your baby, we got other work for you 

       G                 C               D                Em
Better drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to rise and shine 

        G        C            D                   G
There's one less cause in the world to be leaving for
[VERSE 2:]
               C        D              G
It was back in '39 when I was one year old 

               C                      D                   G
Sitting by the backyard fence and the world had turned so cold 

C                 Am             D                  G
Drink yer glasses empty now, was all that they were told 

                  A                    D               G
Drink yer glasses boys and girls, it's time to hit the sky

               A                   D              C    ~ Am
To the tune of thunder, there's no time to wonder why
[VERSE 3:]
     G                 C             G      D  G
We'd love to take life over, that is plain

             C      D             G
Forget about sorrow, forget about pain 

C                             Am            D
Watch a John Wayne movie to remind us once again

       G                 C               D               Em
Better drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to hit the line 

        G        C            D                   G
You got one less cause in the world to be leaving for 

                  A                    D               G
Drink yer glasses girls and boys, it's time to hit the sky 

               A                  D             C     ~ Am
To the tune of thunder, there's a tear in every eye
[VERSE 4:]
                        C        G     D  G
I'd like to take things one at a time 

             C      D             G
Forget about reason, forget about rhyme 

C                              Am             D
Beg, steal, or borrow you got another hill to climb 

   G                 C               D               Em
So drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to hit the road 

        G        C            D                   G
There's one less cause in the world to be leaving for 

                  A                    D               G
Drink yer glasses girls and boys, it's time to hit the sky 

               A                   D              C    ~ Am
To the tune of thunder, there's no time to wonder why
[VERSE 5:]
                       C     G     D  G
We'd like to take life over again 

             C               D            G
When time of war had passed away into the rain 

    C                             Am             D
And watch a John Wayne movie to remind us of the plains

     G                 C               D                Em
Just drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to rise and shine 

        G        C            D                   G
There's one less cause in the world to be leaving for