Grandma was a pretty thing
When she was just 16
She fell in love with a full grown man
Who ran off with a barroom queen
My daddy was just a baby then
But he remembers to this day
His old man stumbling down the street
Til his mama made him look away
Round and round the bottle goes
Where it stops nobody knows
Many are the good souls left alone
Round and round the bottle spins
Til it knocks you down again
And the victims of a drunkard wait at home
Daddy worked the oil fields all along the East-Tex line
Then he moved us all to Tulsa
Where his oil wells changed to wine
I remember one Christmas evening
Santa never showed
My mama cried herself to sleep that night
And Daddy came home with a load
Round and round the bottle goes
Where it stops nobody knows
Many are the good souls left alone
Round and round the bottle spins
Til it knocks you down again
And the victims of a drunkard wait at home
My Grandpa's dead and my daddy's drunk
Somewhere in Oklahoma
And Mama moved back to Texas long ago, yeah
Look at me, here I am, my daddy's only daughter
Sharing little secrets with a man I barely know
Round and round the bottle goes
Where it stops nobody knows
Many are the good souls left alone
Round and round the bottle spins
Til it knocks you down again
And the victims of a drunkard wait at home