Whiskey Lullaby

I once visit a friend's place and they were playing this song. It was my first time hearing the song being played and watched. I found this song very touching. The more so when you watch the music video.

Whiskey Lullaby is a song about a couple who divorce and eventually kill themselves because they miss each other. The full length music video is set in the 1940s. It starts out with a man returning home from the Army, and find her wife in bed with another man. He then leaves her. The man starts drinking being not able to get his wife off his mind. He eventually gets so drunk that he kills himself. The wife, blaming herself for his death, also began drinking a lot, thinking that it is the only way to make her feel better until it also killed her. The song was written by Bill Anderson and Jon Randall.

Watch the Music Video (YouTube):



Here is how the lyric goes:

Brad Paisley - Whiskey Lullaby (Featuring Alison Krauss)

She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' to forget
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind
Until the night

1st Chorus
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said I'll love her till I die
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby

(Sing lullaby)

The rumors flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath
She finally drank her pain away a little at a time
But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind
Until the night

2nd Chorus
She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away his memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees
We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby