Al Robitaille's video: Hemingway s Whiskey Commercial Al Robitaille - by Guy Clark Joe Leathers Acoustic Cover

Go to www.youtube.com/user/AlRobitaille for my latest videos. Click the little "see all" (below video thumbnails) to see all the videos. Chords and lyrics to this song below! If you cut and paste them into your word processor/editor it may line the chords up a little better over the lyrics. The song's a wee bit earnest, so I thought I'd pull back on the earnest and turn it into a commercial, Bill Murray style :) "Hemingway's Whiskey" .. warm and smooth and mean - what a great line. Think I'm gonna pick me up a bottle right now. But then after I recorded this, I read where "Hemingway's Whiskey" is slang for "shotgun suicide", which apparently is how Mr. Hemingway ended his life. So maybe I'm not so funny (: This is the title track from Kenny's 2010 album, and lotsa people are saying it's one of their favorites from the album. So don't play the original or I'm gonna sound like a bum. From Wikipedia (re: the album) In an interview with The Boot, Chesney explained the reasoning behind the title of his new release, citing the influence of Guy Clark, saying "I was sitting in my truck and a friend had given me Guy's album, which had just come out. It's a song that talks about living life to its fullest, being a man about your responsibilities and not compromising. As soon as I heard it, I knew I had to cut it -- and call the album that -- because it says everything about the way you live your life, and what life can be if you refuse to buy into limits, which, as someone who's read all his books, is everything Hemingway's novels revolved around." In a CMT blog, Chesney also commented saying that he wanted the album to be "something more " than its predecessor, Lucky Old Sun "I came to town to write songs, to make records, to create something that spoke about how I lived, and the people who I knew who were just like me and my friends lived." Jon Caramanica with The New York Times referred to the album as "darker" that his previous work, saying "on Hemingway's Whiskey, though, his voice sounds smoother and deeper than usual, and he's using it to more potent effect. He also preferred Chesney's version of the title track over Guy Clark's, saying "His version of the title track is of course far cleaner than Guy Clark's, whose original take on it was practically withering on the microphone, but Mr. Chesney sounds studious." Hemingway's Whiskey Guy Clark John Leathers Ray Stephenson CAPO 5 in A (Key of D) C G Am FC G Am F VERSE 1 C Hemingway's whiskey G Warm and smooth and mean Am E-ven when it burns F It'll al-ways finish clean C He didn't li-ke it watered down, took it G Straight up and ne-at Am If it was ba-d eno-ugh for hi-m, you know it's F Bad enough f-o-r m-e-e CHORUS C G Am F Hemingway's whiskey VERSE 2 C Ah it's tough out there G A good muse is hard to find Am Living one w o r d to the next F One l i n e at a time C There's m o r e to li-fe than whiskey G There's more to words than rhyme Am Sometimes nothing works F Sometimes nothing shines CHORUS C G Am F Like Hemingway's whiskey C G Am F G Sail away, sail away F Three sheets to the wi-ind Dm Live hard, die hard, G This one's for him VERSE 1 3X CHORUS, and then a final A E F D