Key: E 🎸 Intro: N.C. I love that one N.C. Four, three, one, two, three, four E A E G D E 🎸 Verse 1: E Got a whiskey drinking fever that I cannnot shake E
And those girls downtown are more than I can take A High-waisted rockies and the sailor's mouths E And the boys at the back of the bar scream loud 🎸 Refrain: G D E Oh, whiskey river take me home 🎸 Verse 2: E And I smell like cologne and cigarettes E But I ain't found a lady or a bar fight yet A I'll wait around just to stir shit up E That whiskey river flowing ain't ever enough 🎸 Refrain: G D E Oh, whiskey river take me home 🎸 Verse 3: E 'Cause I'm a heavy-drinking hard-hitting good ol' boy E There ain't a man in this county that you keep me employed A Can't stay sober past 11 a.m E My breath smells like my regrets again 🎸 Refrain: G D E Oh, whiskey river take me home 🎸 Verse 4: E N.C. I had a woman in Wisconsin, and a woman in Maine N.C. But they told me that they'd never love a man so insane A N.C. I head to Oklahoma with the flask and a comb E Do my best to find another place I can roam 🎸 Refrain: G D E Oh, whiskey river take me home 🎸 Verse 5: E There was no one in town that would give me a ride E So I waited for my heavy drunkenness to subside A Stole a pick-up truck from a gas station pump E I pray to the Lord for a run of good luck 🎸 Refrain: G D E Oh, whiskey river take me home Fiddle 🎸 Solo: E A E G D E Piano 🎸 Solo: E A E G D E 🎸 Verse 6: E And I was four hundred miles down Highway 10 E All of a sudden I was arrested again A They told me eight years in the county pen E Or eight years in the army killing evil men 🎸 Refrain: G A E Oh, whiskey river take me home 🎸 Bridge: E Now there's sand in my boots E Sand in my eyes E Sand everywhere that sand can hide A How I miss those downtown girls E And that whiskey river that ruined my world G D E Oh Uncle Sam I wanna go home 🎸 Verse 7: E I had a whiskey drinking fever that I could not shake E And those girls downtown were more than I could take A The high-waisted rockies and the sailor's mouths E Boys in the back of the bar screaming loud 🎸 Outro: G D E Oh, whiskey river take me home G D E Oh, whiskey river I wanna go home N.C. (That take ripped) N.C. (That take fucking ripped dude)
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