by Mishka Shubaly - www.mishkashubaly.com -
!!(as heard on Doug Stanhope's Podcast- http://www.dougstanhope.com/mypodcast/ )!!
{Ultimate-guitar kind of messes up the chords-to-lyric distribution, not that this
transcription is perfect by any means, but if you want to see what I actually typed out, get
the .pdf here- http://www.mediafire.com/download/1lx1dxfku8e1ep8/onlyonedrinkin.pdf }
Drop D
Intro riff on G&B strings back&forth on the 5th&7th frets
AG
Pass me the lampshade
DD
I'm drunk again
AG
Blew my drug money
DGD
on a quart of gin
AG
Well I am a cultured man
DGD
with tastes, discriminating
AG
But I'll settle for a tall glass
D
of anything
(Riff on A G D G D)
Fell in love with love
and death and darkness
If I'm a bad drunk, well
it's not for lack of practice
There is no, this is no
modern romance
Cause I'm goin' home
in a fuckin' ambulance
F#E
Well, am I the only one drinkin'
DD
tonight?
F#E
The only one drinkin'
DD
tonight?
EG
Spring break gon'n broke
F#
its sprung
EGD
Now I'm the only one
(Riff on A G D G D)
AG
Mirror and medicine cabinet door
DGD
Like the hatch of a submarine
AG
Bottles inside like buttons and dials
DGD
and tiny back-lit screens
AG
Bloody footprints on the
D
bathroom floor
AG
In a hotel close to the airport
F#E
Well am I the only one drinkin'
DD
tonight?
F#E
The only one drinkin'
DD
tonight
EG
Despair's an octopus
F#
with its head in New Hampshire
EGD
and tentacles everywhere
F#E
Well am I the only one drinkin'
DD
tonight?
F#ED
The only one drinkin' tonight? X2