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

She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short, but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off his knees
We found her with her face down in the pillow
With a note that said, ‘I’ll love her till I die.’
And when we buried her beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey 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 her off her mind
Until the night

She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her 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 her picture for dear life
We laid her next to her beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby