![]() ![]() Who do you have in mind?’ And he said, ‘Well, I think there’s only two people who could do it, and I would like to have one of those: Alison Krauss or Dolly Parton. “Then Brad Paisley heard it – and we did not write the song as a duet, it was written just as a song to be sung by one person – and Brad called me one day on the phone and said, ‘I’ve been listening to this ‘Whiskey Lullaby,’ and what would you think if I brought a girl to sing on that second verse?’ And I said, ‘I’ve never thought of that. And then, of course, the line that everyone remembers is, ‘Put the bottle to his head and pulled the trigger,’ so that was probably an example of cowriting in its purest form, where both people contribute pretty much equally to the process.” We have an official Whiskey Lullaby tab made by UG professional guitarists. Intro: Bm G D G Bm She put him out like the burning end of a midnight cigarette A D G A She broke his heart he spent his whole life trying to forget Bm A D We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time Bm A D But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind A Until tonight. 2 contributors total, last edit on Sep 16, 2021. Life is not always pretty, but sometimes we can find the beauty. We all make mistakes and sometimes things aren’t always what they seem at the time. I know some people refuse to read books that involve cheating, but I think it can make a story feel real if written properly. Tuning: E A D G B E: Capo: no capo: Author Unregistered. Whiskey Lullaby was A-mazing I couldn’t put it down once I started. 145,761 views, added to favorites 1,662 times. She thinks it's her fault and kills herself as well. In the next verse the woman is mourning his loss. He kills himself, drinking himself to death, leaving a note to say that he still loves her. ![]() And he loved that idea, and had been going through a lot of personal things in his life … he said, ‘Well, I put the bottle to my head and pulled the trigger a few times,’ and next thing I’m going, ‘Forget the midnight cigarette! I love put the bottle to the head and pulled the trigger!’ So what we did was we combined my line, ‘She put him out like the burning end of a midnight cigarette,’ as the opening line of ‘Whiskey Lullaby,’ and it worked really well. Whiskey Lullaby Intro Tab by Brad Paisley. A duet with Alison Krauss, this song is about a man and a woman who were married he went to war and when he came back she was with another man. “Jon Randall and I got together to write one morning, and I came in and said, ‘I’ve got an idea to write a song called ‘Midnight Cigarette.’ Can you imagine a cigarette just sitting on an ashtray at midnight? Nobody’s smoking it or paying it any attention, and it just sort of burns out and goes out all by itself, and liken that to a relationship – it wasn’t like you hit a wall or anything, it just burned out, it just went away. ![]() Written by one of country music’s actual living legends, Bill Anderson, and Jon Randall (Gary Allan, Dierks Bentley), “Whiskey Lullaby” was a great example of a true songwriting collaboration, as Anderson recounted to author Jake Brown in Brown’s 2014 book, Nashville Songwriter. ![]()
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