ROUND AND ROUND THE BOTTLE
(Susan Taylor)


Tanya Tucker - 1976





Grandma was a pretty thing when she was just sixteen
She fell in love with a full grown man who ran off with a barroom queen
My Daddy was just a baby then, but he remembers to this day
His old man stumblin' down the street till his Mama made him look away

Round and round the bottle goes, where it stops nobody knows
Many are the good souls left alone
Round and round the bottle spins, till it knocks you down again
And the victims of the drunkard wait at home

Daddy worked the oil fields all along the east Tex line
Then he moved us all to Tulsa where his oil wells changed to wine
But I remember one Christmas evening, oh, Santa never showed
And Mama cried herself to sleep that night and my Daddy came home with a load

Round and round the bottle goes, where it stops nobody knows
Many are the good souls left alone
Round and round the bottle spins, till it knocks you down again
And the victims of the drunkard wait at home

My Grandmas's dead and my Daddy's drunk somewhere in Oklahoma
And Mama moved back to Texas long ago, yeah
Look at me, here I am, my Daddy's only daughter
Sharin' little secrets with a man I barely know, oh

Round and round the bottle goes, where it stops nobody knows
Many are the good souls left alone, yeah
Round and round the bottle spins, till it knocks you down again
And the victims of the drunkard wait at home






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2013)