She put him out like the burning end   Of a midnight cigarette   She 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   You get her off his mind, until the night      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      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      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      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 downing 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      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