Life Of Wine And Roses Chords

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Life Of Wine And Roses by Merle Haggard is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, G7 and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			     (C) Once I lived a life of (F) wine and (C)Roses. 
     I (G7) drank a lot back then for one (C) concern. 
     Success for me lay (F) just around the corner.  I 
     thought my (G7) social friends would help me make 
     the (C) turn. 
 
            (C) Now I'm paying for the (F) days of 
     wine and (C) and roses.  A (G7) victim of the 
     drunken life I (C) chose.  Now all my social 
     (F) friends look down their (C) noses.  Cause I 
     (G7) kept the wine and through away the (C) rose. 
 
     Interlude:  (C F, C, G7, C) 
 
     (C) I stood by and watched the (F) bottle take 
     (C) control of me.  The (G7) turn I made was not 
     the one I (C) planned.  And I watched my social 
     (F) standing slip (C) away from me.  While I 
     (G7) watched the bottle slowly take (C) command. 
     (repeat chorus) 
    	

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