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[Verse 1]
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Hanging around this dirty old town
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A'picking for nickels and dimes
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Asking a friend just to lend me a hand
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To get a little bottle of wine

[Chorus]
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Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine
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When you gonna let me get so-ber
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Leave me alone, and let me go home
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Let me go back and start o - ver

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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A little hotel, cold as a well
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And dark as the coal in the mine
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The blankets so thin,that I lay there and grin
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Hugging my bottle of wine

[Chorus]
A
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine
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When you gonna let me get so-ber
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Leave me alone, and let me go home
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Let me go back and start o - ver

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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A preacher will preach and a teacher will teach,
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A miner will dig in the mine
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I ride the rods, trusting in God
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And hugging my bottle of wine

[Chorus]
A
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine
A                         E7  A
When you gonna let me get so-ber
A
Leave me alone, and let me go home
A                        E7  A
Let me go back and start o - ver