Lyrics:. he put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette. She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' to forget. We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time. But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind. Until the night. He put that bottle to his head and pulled thetrigger. 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 himbeneath the willow. The angels sang a whiskey lullaby.