She put him out Like the burning end of a midnight cigarette He broke his heart He spent his whole life trying 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 He put that bottle to his head And pulled the trigger He 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 angel sang a whiskey lullaby La la la la la la la La la la la la la la La la la la la la la La la la la la la The rumours 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 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 Playing to his picture for dear life We laid her next to him beneath the willow While the angels sang the whiskey lullaby La la la la la la la La la la la la la La la la la la la La la la la la la La la la la la la la La la la la la la La la la la la la la La la la la la la