Teach Em How To Swim chords by Hank Thompson

Key: A

Verse 1:
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Babe you got me up a tree, way up on a limb
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You told me lies, you let me on, then turned me down for him
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You took my heart, tore it all apart, and then threw it away
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Now that its all over baby, heres all I can say, oh!

Chorus:
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Take my glass, fill it up, and fill it to the brim
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If I cant drown my sorrows baby, I'll teach em how to swim
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If I cant teach em how to swim, I'll teach em how to float
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So please just pass, one more glass, to grease my dusty throat

Verse 2:
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Grandpa swallowed his first drink, when he was only eight
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the doctor warned him then and there, to stop before it was too late
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But grandpa was a headstrong man, he didnt heed the plea
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Now he done drank himself to death, he died at 93

Verse 3:
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So since my grandpa lives alone, I wanna be like him
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If I cant drown my troubles baby, I'll teach em how to swim
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So, here I sit, in this old bar, my futures looking dim
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If I cant drown my troubles baby I'll teach em how to swim, oh!

Chorus:
A                                         D
take my glass, fill it up, fill it to the brim
E                                                      A
If I cant drown my troubles babe, I'll teach em how to swim
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If I cant teach em how to swim, I'll teach em how to float
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So please just pass, one more glass, to grease my dusty throat