She put him out like the burnin'
end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart he spent
his whole life tryin' to forget
We watched him drink his
pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk
enough to get her off his mind
Until the night
He put that bottle to his head
and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short but this
time it was bigger
Than the strength he had
to get up off his knees
We found him with his
face down in the pillow
With a note that said
I'll love her till I die
And when we buried him
beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby
lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala
The rumors flew but nobody knew
how much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to
hide the whiskey on her breath
She finally drank her pain
away a little at a time
But she never could get drunk
enough to get him off her mind
Until the night
She put that bottle to her
head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away his memory
Life is short but this
time it was bigger
Than the strength she had
to get up off her knees
We found her with her
face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to
him beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby
lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala
