Standard (EADGBE)

She unscrews the top off her new whisky bottle

She hobbles about in her candlelit hovel

Like some kind of witch, with blue fingers in mittens

She smells like a cat, and the nieghbours she sickens

Her black and white TV has long seen a picture

The cross on the wall is a permenent fixture

The postman deliveres, the final reminders

She sells off her silver, and poodles in china

Chorus.

Drinks to remember I, me and myself

Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf

Home is a love that I miss very much

So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love

During the wartime an American pilot

Made every air-raid a time of excitement

She moved to his prairie and married the texan

She'd learn from a distance how love was a lesson

He became drinker and she became mother

She knew that one day she'd be one or the other

He ate himself old and drank himself dizzy

Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty

Chorus.

Drinks to remember I, me and myself

Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf

Home is a love that I miss very much

So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love

He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber

Out on the porch in the middle of summer

She crossed the ocean back home to her family

But they had retired to roads that are sandy

She moved home alone without friends or relations

Lived in a world full of age reservations

Her moth eaten armchair, she'd say that she's sod all

Friends who have left her, to drink from the bottle

Chorus.

Drinks to remember I, me and myself

Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf

Home is a love that I miss very much

So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love

So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love

The past --- has been bottled, -- and la--be --led with --- love