Interpret:

Alison Krauss

Album:

A Hundred Miles Or More (A Collection)

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


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