A Little Old Wine Drinker Me
by Dean Martin. Transcribed by Gary Flunder
Key of E (Alternating bass strum style)
Intro: E E E E
E A E
I'm praying for rain in California
B
So the grapes willl grow and they can make more wine
E A E
And I'm sitting in a honkey in Chicago
B E
With a broken heart and a woman on my mind
B E
I ask the man behind the bar for the jukebox
B
And the music takes me back to Tennessee
E A E
And they ask who's the fool in the corner crying
A B E
I say (pause) a little old wine drinker me
E E E F (Key Change - up half tone to Key of F)
F Bb F
I came her last week from down in Nashville
C
'Cos my baby left for Florida on a train
F Bb F
I thought I'd get a job and just forget her
C F
But in Chicago a broken heart is still the same
C F
I ask the man behind the bar for the jukebox
C
And the music takes me back to Tennessee
F Bb F
When they ask who's the fool in the corner crying
Bb C F
I say (pause) a little old wine drinker me
Bb C F C F
I say (pause) a little old wine drinker me