verse 1 
          G           C 
Fare thee well my old friend, 
           G                                                        D 
If I could toast to every smile you brought, the drinks would never end. 
              G                 C 
But still the wake, it falls to me, 
             G                                                   D 
And though I don't know where to turn to, even blinded men could see, 


[Refrão]

Chorus 
      Em                              G 
It'll take more than a pint or two to celebrate your life. 
            G                D 
I'll need a bender so legendary 
     Em                                G 
That mortal men will shudder when they think of the night 
       G             D      G 
I went drinking like Oliver Reed. 


verse 2 
             G                 C 
I'll raise a pint. No, make it eight. 
              G                                                  D 
Twelve double rums and then some whiskey--half a bottle, take it straight. 
            G             C 
And it will be fitting tribute 
       G                                                 D 
To the last round of the only thirst endowed to drink to you. 



[Refrão]
Chorus 
      Em                              G 
It'll take more than a pint or two to celebrate your life. 
            G                D 
I'll need a bender so legendary 
     Em                                G 
That mortal men will shudder when they think of the night 
       G             D      G 
I went drinking like Oliver Reed. 


Bridge 
       Em                       G 
Oliver Reed was a legend with a liver made of fire 
      G                         D 
And a thirst that was more of a need. 
        Em                                G 
And his affair with the bottle danced him to his funeral pyre, 
            G             D      G 
But I'll go drinking like Oliver Reed. 


[Refrão]

Chorus 
      Em                              G 
It'll take more than a pint or two to celebrate your life. 
            G                D 
I'll need a bender so legendary 
     Em                                G 
That mortal men will shudder when they think of the night 
       G             D      G 
I went drinking like Oliver Reed.