BUBBLES IN MY BEER
(Tommy Duncan / Cindy Walker / Bob Wills)

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (vocal: Tommy Duncan) - 1948
Hank Thompson - 1958
George Jones - 1962
Ray Pennington - 1971
Ernest Tubb - 1972
Willie Nelson - 1973

Also recorded by: Ray Price; Nolan Bruce Allen; Al Dean;
Mac Wiseman; Tommy Duncan; Charlie Walker; Cornell Hurd;
Jonboy Langford & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts.


Tonight in a bar alone I'm sitting
Apart from the laughter and the cheers
While scenes from the past, rise before me
Just watchin' the bubbles in my beer

A vision of someone who loved me
Brings a lone silent tear to my eye
Oh! I know that my life's been a failure
Just watchin' the bubbles in my beer

I'm seeing a road that I've traveled
A road paved with hearthaches and tears
And I'm seeing the past that I've wasted
While watchin' the bubbles in my beer

As I think of the heart that I've broken
And of the golden chances that have passed me by
And the dreams that I made, now are empty
As empty as the bubbles in my beer


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As recorded by RAY PRICE:


Tonight in a barroom I'm sitting
Apart from the laughter and the cheer
The scenes of my life pass before me
While watchin' the bubbles in my beer

A vision of someone who loved me
Brings a lone silent tear to my eye
I know that my life's been a failure
Just watchin' the bubbles in my beer

(Instrumental Break)

I'm seein' the road that I travelled
A road paved with heartaches and tears
I'm seeing the past that I've wasted
While watchin' the bubbles in my beer

I think of the heart that I've broken
And the golden chances that have passed me by
The dreams I once made, now are over
As empty as the bubbles in my beer


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