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 an years she tried to
hide the whiskey on her breath
She fially drank her
pain away a little at a time
But she never could
get drunk enough to get him
off he 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