Back In My Drinkin' Days Chords
by Bobby Pinson
Back In My Drinkin' Days by Bobby Pinson is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C#. It uses the chords C, F, G, Am and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
CAPO I
INTRO: C
C F G C
Back in my drinkin' days I could hold my own in a fight
F G C
Swingin' at the Devil with one hell of a right
C F G C
Back in my drinkin' days I borrowed against borrowed time
F G C
God gives a lot away, I was stealin' mine
C F G C
And back in my drinkin' days I could fall and never feel a thing
F G C
Filled the void with Tanqueray, killed the night with what's-her-name
C G F C
But I never knew I was thirsty 'til I set that bottle down
C G F C
And I never knew I was lonely 'til I quit laughin' a crowd
Am G F
And I never knew I was empty 'til you poured into me
Dm G
Made me a man I could never be
Back in my drinkin' days, talkin' to Jesus from the bar
Pushin' my limits, my women, my religion way too far
Back in my drinkin' days, there's some skeletons in tears
'Cause I left 'em high and dry and they know they ain't welcome here
C G F C
But I never knew I was thirsty 'til I set that bottle down
C G F C
And I never knew I was lonely 'til I quit laughin' in a crowd
Am G F
And I never knew I was empty 'til you poured into me
Dm G
Made me a man I could never be, back in my drinkin' days
C
Yeah my worst day in this new place
Dm G C
Is better than my best one
F
Back in my drinkin' days
C F
Yeah I had me some...drinkin' days