The Statler Brothers – The Regular Saturday Night Setback Card Game (Guitar)

F                                  C
Uncle Sam and Daddy, Bay and Uncle Clive

      G                                       C
Got together every week as long as they were alive

    F                                                 C
But they'd always get to fightin' and forget why they came

       G                                   C
To the regular Saturday Night setback card game

C                        G
Uncle Sam was married to Daddy's sister May

                                                      C
And mama's bachelor brother was Baylor, we called him Bay

                                  F
Uncle Clive was just someone that Daddy always knew

      D                         G7
Who'd wind up at our house each time he had a few

      C                                    G
And before the cards were shuffled, they'd all push back their chairs

                                         C
And shuffle off together down the cellar stairs

                                          F
They kept something in green bottles like you ain't never smelt

              G                                          C
And you could hear 'em down there toastin' Franklin Roosevelt.

C#                        G#
  Politics, religion, Joe Lewis' last knockout

                                              C#
They'd argue about anything they didn't know about

                             F#
Uncle Sam bet on Walcott and Dewey but wouldn't pay

    D#                           G#
And Daddy and Uncle Clive had to separate him and Bay

          C#                                 G#
And after three trips to the basement, Uncle Clive would get blind

                                                  C#
And begin to quote in scripture no one could ever find

                                           F#
"You can lead a horse to water" was in the Bible he would say

    G#                                                 C#
And Daddy and Uncle Sam would have to separate him and Bay

F#                                 C#
Uncle Sam and Daddy, Bay and Uncle Clive

      G#                                      C#
Got together every week as long as they were alive

    F#                                                C#
But they'd always get to fightin' and forget why they came

       G#                                  C#
To the regular Saturday Night setback card game

           C#                            G#
Well Uncle Sam Left me his watch bob and Bay left me some stocks

                                                   C#
And the Bible Uncle Clive left me was still in the box

                           F#
And Daddy left a song that remembers it so well

      D#                      G#
And a lot of other memories I don't have time to tell

              C#                                G#
And if you're wonderin' about the card game and    who lost or won

                                                       C#
To tell you the truth they never got around to playin' one

                                           F#
But if tonight they're all together and an extra hand is dealt

            G#                                          C#    C#
I hope it's Daddy, Clive, Bay and Sam and Franklin Roosevelt