Round And Round The Bottle

Grandma was a pretty thing when she was just sixteen She fell in love with a full grown man who ran off with a barroom queen My daddy was just a baby then but he remembers to this day His old man stumblin' down the street till his momma made him look away Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows Many are the good souls left alone Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again And the victims of the drunkard wait at home Daddy worked the oil fields all along the east Tex line Then he moved us all to Tulsa where his oil wells changed to wine But I remember one Christmas evening oh Santa never showed And momma cried herself to sleep that night And my daddy came home with the load Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows Many are the good souls left alone Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again And the victims of the drunkard wait at home My grandma’s dead and my daddy's drunk somewhere in Oklahoma And momma moved back to Texas long ago yeah Look at me here I am my daddy's only daughter Sharin' little secrets with a man I barely know Round and round the bottle goes where it stops nobody knows Many are the good souls left alone Round and round the bottle spins till it knocks you down again And the victims of the drunkard wait at home