{"id":10729,"date":"2022-06-22T05:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T05:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=10729"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:36:59","slug":"kisses-sweeter-than-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/kisses-sweeter-than-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisses Sweeter than Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Jimmie Rodgers<\/span>\r\n*Released 1957*\r\n<\/span> \r\n \r\nVerse 1:\r\n<\/span>[Am] Well, when I was a young man; never been kissed,\r\n<\/span><\/span>I got to [Dm] thinkin' it over how [Am] much I had missed.\r\n<\/span><\/span>So I [Am] got me a girl and I kissed her and then, and then,\r\n<\/span><\/span>[Dm]  Oh, Lordy, well, I [Am] kissed her again, because...\r\n<\/span><\/span> [Am]  She had [Dm] kisses [E7] sweeter than [Am] wine,\r\n<\/span><\/span>She had, [Dm] mmm, mmm, kisses sweeter than [Am] wine.\r\n<\/span><\/span>(Sweeter than wine)...\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> \r\nVerse 2:\r\n<\/span>Well, I [Am] asked her to marry and to be my sweet wife,\r\n<\/span><\/span>I told her [Dm] we'd be so happy for the [Am] rest of our life.\r\n<\/span><\/span>I [Am] begged and I pleaded like a natural man,\r\n<\/span><\/span>[Dm] And then, whoops oh Lordy, well she [Am] gave me her hand, because...\r\n<\/span><\/span>[Am] She had [Dm] kisses [E7] sweeter than [Am] wine, \r\nShe had, [Dm] mmm, mmm, kisses sweeter than [Am] wine. \r\n<\/span><\/span>(Sweeter than wine)...\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> \r\nVerse 3:\r\n<\/span>Well, we [Am] worked very hard; both me and my wife,\r\n<\/span><\/span>Workin' [Dm] hand-in-hand to [Am] have a good life.\r\n<\/span><\/span>We had [Am] corn in the field and wheat in the bin,\r\n<\/span><\/span>[Dm] And then, whoops oh Lord, I was the [Am] father of twins, because...\r\n<\/span><\/span>[Am] She had [Dm] kisses [E7] sweeter than [Am] wine, \r\n<\/span><\/span>She had, [Dm] mmm, mmm, kisses sweeter than [Am] wine. <\/span><\/span> \r\n(Sweeter than wine)...\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Verse 4:\r\n<\/span>Well, our [Am] children they numbered just about four,\r\n<\/span><\/span>And they [Dm] all had a sweetheart a-[Am]-knockin' on the door.\r\n<\/span><\/span>They [Am] all got married and they wouldn't hesitate,\r\n<\/span><\/span>[Dm] I was, whoops oh Lord, the grand-[Am]-father of eight, because...\r\n<\/span><\/span>[Am] She had [Dm] kisses [E7] sweeter than [Am] wine, \r\nShe had, [Dm] mmm, mmm, kisses sweeter than [Am] wine. \r\n<\/span><\/span>(Sweeter than wine)...\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> \r\nVerse 5:\r\n<\/span>Well, [Am] now that I'm old and I'm ready to go,\r\n<\/span><\/span>I get to [Dm] thinkin' what happened, a [Am] long time ago.\r\n<\/span><\/span>[Am] Had a lot of kids, a lot of trouble and pain,\r\n<\/span><\/span>[Dm] But then, whoops oh Lordy, well, I'd [Am] do it all again, because...\r\n<\/span><\/span>[Am] She had [Dm] kisses [E7] sweeter than [Am] wine, \r\n<\/span><\/span>She had, [Dm] mmm, mmm, kisses sweeter than [Am] wine. <\/span><\/span> \r\n \r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
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SHEET MUSIC by Jimmie Rodgers *Released 1957* Verse 1: [Am] Well, when I was a young man; never been kissed, I got to [Dm] thinkin’ it over how [Am] much I had missed. So I [Am] got me a girl and I kissed her and then, and then, [Dm] Oh, … CLICK TO VIEW SONGKisses Sweeter than Wine<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,265,116,117,68,131,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-love-songs","category-power-outage","category-songpics-sheetmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30183,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions\/30183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}