INTRO:
(Play the INTRO like this 7x's over what is being spoken)

                   G    Em G
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(Spoken)
I went to see an old army buddy of mine to do some drinking
And his wife had become an alcoholic 
And I wrote a song about it

G    Em G
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CHORUS:
 G                  C
Pay no attention to Alice, 
        G            Em
She's drunk all the time
 C              G
Booked on that wine, 
 C
Bunches of it 
        G          Em  G    G   Em G
And it ruined her mind

 G                  C
Pay no attention to Alice, 
      G          Em
They say she's a sot, 
 C           G
Sane she is not
         C
But she loves it 
          G           Em G   G   Em G
And it's all she's got


VERSE:
     D                          C
She made that apple pie from a memory
           G
Made them biscuits 
          D
From a recollection 
          G  Em G    G   Em G
That she had

     D
She cooked that chicken too long 
               C
But she don't know that
G                 Em G    G   Em G
Oh, what the hell, 
D
It ain't too bad!


CHORUS:
 G                  C
Pay no attention to Alice, 
        G            Em
She's drunk all the time
 C              G
Booked on that wine, 
 C
Bunches of it 
        G         Em  G    G   Em G
And it ruined her mind

 G                  C
Pay no attention to Alice, 
      G          Em
They say she's a sot, 
 C           G
Sane she is not
         C
But she loves it 
          G           Em G   G   Em G
And it's all she's got


VERSE:
 D                                 C
Don't talk about the war, I was a coward
            G
Talk about fishing 
             D
And all the good times 
         G  Em G    G   Em G
Raising hell

 D
Empty that one down, 
            C
We'll get another
 G                Em G    G   Em G
It's gettin' late, 
D
We might as well


VERSE:
        D
But we ran your car into a ditch, 
             C
Man, don't sweat it
        G
I know Ben 
              D
Down at the Shell station 
                  G  Em G    G   Em G
And he'll get it out 


OUTRO:
 D                             C
Alice, put your ashes in that ashtray
         G    Em G    G   Em G
I swear woman, 
              D
You're gonna burn down the house

 G                  C
Pay no attention to Alice, 
        G
She's drunk all the time