Tom: Em
Am C G Am
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry,
Am C G Am
If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die
Am C G Em
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry
Am C G Am
If you don't give me rye whiskey I surely will die
[Verse]
Am C G Am
I'll tune up my fiddle and rosin my bow
Am C G Am
I make myself welcome, wherever I go
Am C G Em
Beefsteak when I'm hungry, red booze when I'm dry
Am C G Am
Dubloons when I'm hard up and religion when I die
Am C G Am
They say I drink whiskey, my money's my own
Am C G Am
And them that don't like me, can leave me alone
Am C G Em
Sometimes I drink whiskey, sometimes I drink rum
Am C G Am
Sometimes I drink brown ale and other times none
[Chorus]
Am C G Am
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry,
Am C G Am
If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die
Am C G Em
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry
Am C G Am
If you don't give me rye whiskey I surely will die
[Verse]
Am C G Am
But if I get boozey, my whiskey's my own
Am C G Am
And them that don't like me, can leave me alone
Am C G Em
Jack o' Diamonds, Jack o' Daniel's I know you of old
Am C G Am
You've robbed me poor pockets of silver and gold
Am C G Am
Oh whiskey, you villain, you've been my downfall
Am C G Am
You've kicked me, you've cuffed me, but I love you for all
Am C G Em
If the ocean were whiskey and I was a duck
Am C G Am
I'd dive to the bottom and drown to get drunk
[Chorus]
Am C G Am
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry,
Am C G Am
If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die
Am C G Em
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry
Am C G Am
If you don't give me rye whiskey I surely will die
[Verse]
Am C G Am
My foot in a stirrup, her scarf in my hand
Am C G Am
I pray thee sweet Lillie, she'll find a good man
Am C G Em
Her parents don't like me, they say I'm too poor
Am C G Am
Unfit and unworthy to enter her door
Am C G Am
Sweet milk when I'm hungry, rye whiskey when dry
Am C G Am
If a tree don't fall on me, I'll live 'till I die
Am C G Em
I'll buy my own whiskey and make my own stew
Am C G Am
And when I get drunk all, it's because of you
[Chorus]
Am C G Am
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry,
Am C G Am
If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die
Am C G Em
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry
Am C G Am
If you don't give me rye whiskey I surely will die
[Verse]
Am C G Am
I'll drink my own whiskey and finish your wine
Am C G Am
Some ten thousand bottles I've killed in my time
Am C G Em
I've no wife to quarrel, no babies to bawl
Am C G Am
The best way of livin's with no wife at all
Am C G Am
On Mullacor Mountain I wander alone
Am C G Am
I'm drunk as the devil, oh, leave me alone
Am C G Em
You may boast of your wisdom and brag of your blood
Am C G Am
We'll both be forgotten in the wake of the flood
[Chorus]
Am C G Am
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry,
Am C G Am
If things don't get better, I'll lay down and die
Am C G Em
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I sigh
Am C G Am
If I've run out of rye whiskey I might as well die
[Outro]
Am C G Am
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry
Am C G Em
If you don't give me rye whiskey I surely will die...
