Am             C           G            Am
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry,
        Am               C            G           Am
If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die
      Am            C            G      Em
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry
        Am                 C         G         Am
If you don't give me rye whiskey I surely will die

[Verse]
      Am          C         G       Am
I'll tune up my fiddle and rosin my bow
   Am           C         G       Am
I make myself welcome, wherever I go
     Am              C          G             Em
Beefsteak when I'm hungry, red booze when I'm dry
   Am              C           G              Am
Dubloons when I'm hard up and religion when I die
     Am             C          G         Am
They say I drink whiskey, my money's my own
     Am              C            G         Am
And them that don't like me, can leave me alone
   Am               C          G             Em
Sometimes I drink whiskey, sometimes I drink rum
    Am             C              G          Am
Sometimes I drink brown ale and other times none

[Chorus]
     Am             C           G            Am
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry,
        Am               C            G           Am
If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die
      Am            C            G       Em
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry
        Am                  C        G          Am
If you don't give me rye whiskey I surely will die

[Verse]
    Am          C          G         Am
But if I get boozey, my whiskey's my own
     Am              C            G         Am
And them that don't like me, can leave me alone
         Am               C          G           Em
Jack o' Diamonds, Jack o' Daniel's I know you of old
        Am             C           G         Am
You've robbed me poor pockets of silver and gold
     Am           C              G         Am
Oh whiskey, you villain, you've been my downfall
        Am                C                G           Am
You've kicked me, you've cuffed me, but I love you for all
        Am          C         G        Em
If the ocean were whiskey and I was a duck
     Am           C         G            Am
I'd dive to the bottom and drown to get drunk

[Chorus]
     Am             C           G            Am
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry,
        Am               C             G           Am
If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die
        Am         C            G        Em
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry
        Am                 C         G         Am
If you don't give me rye whiskey I surely will die

[Verse]
    Am         C           G           Am
My foot in a stirrup, her scarf in my hand
   Am               C             G          Am
I pray thee sweet Lillie, she'll find a good man
      Am           C             G           Em
Her parents don't like me, they say I'm too poor
   Am        C         G         Am
Unfit and unworthy to enter her door
       Am            C             G         Am
Sweet milk when I'm hungry, rye whiskey when dry
      Am             C            G           Am
If a tree don't fall on me, I'll live 'till I die
     Am           C          G           Em
I'll buy my own whiskey and make my own stew
     Am          C               G        Am
And when I get drunk all, it's because of you

[Chorus]
     Am             C           G            Am
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry,
        Am               C            G           Am
If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die
      Am           C            G       Em
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry
        Am                 C        G          Am
If you don't give me rye whiskey I surely will die

[Verse]
     Am             C           G          Am
I'll drink my own whiskey and finish your wine
     Am            C             G           Am
Some ten thousand bottles I've killed in my time
     Am           C          G         Em
I've no wife to quarrel, no babies to bawl
     Am           C           G         Am
The best way of livin's with no wife at all
     Am         C        G     Am
On Mullacor Mountain I wander alone
     Am           C          G        Am
I'm drunk as the devil, oh, leave me alone
        Am              C         G           Em
You may boast of your wisdom and brag of your blood
       Am        C              G            Am
We'll both be forgotten in the wake of the flood

[Chorus]
     Am             C           G            Am
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry,
    Am               C            G           Am
If things don't get better, I'll lay down and die
      Am           C            G        Em
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I sigh
         Am             C         G            Am
If I've run out of rye whiskey I might as well die

[Outro]
      Am           C            G       Am
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry
        Am                 C         G         Em
If you don't give me rye whiskey I surely will die...