Drink Yer Glasses Empty Chords
Drink Yer Glasses Empty by Gordon Lightfoot is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, C, D, Am, Em and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: G
verse 1:
C G D G
Listen up and I'll tell you what you'll do
C D G
Forget about music and alcohol too
C Am D
Forget about your baby, we got other work for you
G C D Em
Better drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to rise and shine
G C D G
There's one less cause in the world to be leaving for
verse 2:
C D G
It was back in '39 when I was one year old
C D G
Sitting by the backyard fence and the world had turned so cold
C Am D G
Drink yer glasses empty now, was all that they were told
A D G
Drink yer glasses boys and girls, it's time to hit the sky
A D C ~ Am
To the tune of thunder, there's no time to wonder why
verse 3:
G C G D G
We'd love to take life over, that is plain
C D G
Forget about sorrow, forget about pain
C Am D
Watch a John Wayne movie to remind us once again
G C D Em
Better drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to hit the line
G C D G
You got one less cause in the world to be leaving for
A D G
Drink yer glasses girls and boys, it's time to hit the sky
A D C ~ Am
To the tune of thunder, there's a tear in every eye
verse 4:
C G D G
I'd like to take things one at a time
C D G
Forget about reason, forget about rhyme
C Am D
Beg, steal, or borrow you got another hill to climb
G C D Em
So drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to hit the road
G C D G
There's one less cause in the world to be leaving for
A D G
Drink yer glasses girls and boys, it's time to hit the sky
A D C ~ Am
To the tune of thunder, there's no time to wonder why
verse 5:
C G D G
We'd like to take life over again
C D G
When time of war had passed away into the rain
C Am D
And watch a John Wayne movie to remind us of the plains
G C D Em
Just drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to rise and shine
G C D G
There's one less cause in the world to be leaving for