Turnin' Off A Memory
By Merle Haggard
Written by Merle Haggard
Album: Let Me Tell You About A Song (1972)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
5/15/2016


(Spoken:)
Let me tell you about a song
That I wrote especially for my friends with drinkin' problems
Or maybe I should say my friends with problems enough to drink
Anyway it's just an old theme of a man sittin' in a barroom
Tryin' to drown his past. It's called I'm Turnin' Off A Memory...

        D          G           D
You can find me in dim lighted barroom
        D                         A
If your coldness should ever turn warm
        D          G        D
But the chances of you ever changing
       D            A          D
Are as slim as your two loving arms


Chorus:
       D       C     D 
So I'm turnin' off a mem'ry
   D          E7          A 
As quickly as time will allow
    D       C     D
I'm turnin' off a mem'ry
        D             A           D
And the wine seems to help me somehow

If I'm lucky I'll some day forget you
When the wine finally takes full control
It's not much of a future to look to
But I can't stand this pain in my soul.

Chorus

And the wine seems to help me somehow