Tom T. Hall – Pay No Attention To Alice (Guitar)

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SONG: PAY NO ATTENTION TO ALICE ARTIST: TOM T. HALL TAB BY: DON CZARSKI EMAIL: [email protected] INTRO: (Play the INTRO like this 7x's over what is being spoken)
                   G    Em G
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(Spoken) I went to see an old army buddy of mine to do some drinking And his wife had become an alcoholic And I wrote a song about it
G    Em G
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CHORUS:
 G                  C
Pay no attention to Alice, 

        G            Em
She's drunk all the time

 C              G
Booked on that wine, 

 C
Bunches of it 

        G          Em  G    G   Em G
And it ruined her mind

 G                  C
Pay no attention to Alice, 

      G          Em
They say she's a sot, 

 C           G
Sane she is not

         C
But she loves it 

          G           Em G   G   Em G
And it's all she's got
VERSE:
     D                          C
She made that apple pie from a memory

           G
Made them biscuits 

          D
From a recollection 

          G  Em G    G   Em G
That she had

     D
She cooked that chicken too long 

               C
But she don't know that

G                 Em G    G   Em G
Oh, what the hell, 

D
It ain't too bad!
CHORUS:
 G                  C
Pay no attention to Alice, 

        G            Em
She's drunk all the time

 C              G
Booked on that wine, 

 C
Bunches of it 

        G         Em  G    G   Em G
And it ruined her mind

 G                  C
Pay no attention to Alice, 

      G          Em
They say she's a sot, 

 C           G
Sane she is not

         C
But she loves it 

          G           Em G   G   Em G
And it's all she's got
VERSE:
 D                                 C
Don't talk about the war, I was a coward

            G
Talk about fishing 

             D
And all the good times 

         G  Em G    G   Em G
Raising hell

 D
Empty that one down, 

            C
We'll get another

 G                Em G    G   Em G
It's gettin' late, 

D
We might as well
VERSE:
        D
But we ran your car into a ditch, 

             C
Man, don't sweat it

        G
I know Ben 

              D
Down at the Shell station 

                  G  Em G    G   Em G
And he'll get it out 
OUTRO:
 D                             C
Alice, put your ashes in that ashtray

         G    Em G    G   Em G
I swear woman, 

              D
You're gonna burn down the house

 G                  C
Pay no attention to Alice, 

        G
She's drunk all the time