Bottle Of Wine:Kingston Trio.
Album - Stay Awhile - #126 on BB
Hot 200 on DECCA Records in 1965.
INTRO: C G C
CHORUS:
C
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine, when you
G C
gonna let me get so-ber.
C
Let me alone..let me go home..let me go
G C
back and start ov-er.
#1.
C G F
Well, I've rambled around this dirty old
C G C
town, singing for nickels and dimes.
C G F C
Times getting rough, I can't get enough, to
G C
buy me a little bottle of wine.
CHORUS:
C
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine, when you
G C
gonna let me get so-ber.
C
Let me alone..let me go home..let me go
G C
back and start ov-er.
#2.
C G F C
Well, little hotel, older than hell, cold as
G C
the dark in the mine.
G F C
Light so dim, I had to grin, I got a little
G C
bottle of wine.
CHORUS:
C
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine, when you
G C
gonna let me get so-ber.
C
Let me alone..let me go home..let me go
G C
back and start ov-er.
INTERLUDE: C G C
#3.
C F C Bb
Well, the preacher will preach and the teacher
F C F
will teach, the miner will dig in the mine.
C Bb F
I ride the rods, trusting in God, huggin' my
C F
bottle of wine.
CHORUS:
F
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine, when you
C F
gonna let me get so-ber.
F
Let me alone..let me go home..let me go
C F
back and start ov-er.
#4.
F C Bb F
Well, pain in my head, bugs in my bed, pants so
C F
old that they shine.
C Bb F
Out on the street, I tell the people I meet, to
C F
buy me a little bottle of wine.
CHORUS:
F
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine, when you
C F
gonna let me get so-ber.
F
Let me alone..let me go home..let me go
C F
back and start ov-er.
OUTRO:
F
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine, when you
C F
gonna let me get so-ber?
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.