Squeeze – Labeled With Love (Ukulele)

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================ Performed by The Squeeze Tabbed by "Nav" [email protected] NB: The original is played off "E" but I find it way too high. Chords used D x00121 A x02220 D7 xx0212 Em 022000 G 355433 F#m 244222
      D
She unscrews the top off her new whisky bottle

      D                                                 A
She hobbles about in her candlelit hovel

         A
Like some kind of witch, with blue fingers in mittens

        A                                                                 D
She smells like a cat, and the nieghbours she sickens

       D
Her black and white TV has long seen a picture

       D7                               Em
The cross on the wall is a permenent fixture

       A
The postman deliveres, the final reminders

       A                                      G / F#m / Em
She sells off her silver, and poodles in china
Chorus.
D                                  E7
Drinks to remember I, me  and myself

A                                                                           D
Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf

                                   E7
Home is a love that I miss very much

            A                                           G/F#m/Em/D
So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love
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D
During the wartime an American pilot

      D                                            A
Made every air-raid a time of excitement

       A
She moved to his prairie and married the texan

        A                                                               D
She'd learn from a distance how love was a lesson

      D
He became drinker and she became mother

       D7                                           Em
She knew that one day she'd be one or the other

      A
He ate himself old and drank himself dizzy

       A                                      G / F#m / Em
Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty
Chorus.
D                                  E7
Drinks to remember I, me  and myself

A                                                                           D
Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf

                                   E7
Home is a love that I miss very much

            A                                           G/F#m/Em/D
So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love
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      D
He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber

      D                                                A
Out on the porch in the middle of summer

       A
She crossed the ocean back home to her family

       A                                                      D
But they had retired to roads that are sandy

       D
She moved home alone without friends or relations

       D7                            Em
Lived in a world full of age reservations

        A
Her moth eaten armchair, she'd say that she's sod all

       A                                             G / F#m / Em
Friends who have left her, to drink from the bottle
------------------------ Chorus.
D                                  E7
Drinks to remember I, me  and myself

A                                                                           D
Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf

                                   E7
Home is a love that I miss very much

            A                                           G/F#m/Em/D
So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love

            A                                           G/F#m/Em/D
So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love

            A                                                 G / F#m / Em  /   D
The past ---  has been bottled, -- and la--be --led with --- love