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INTRO
SOL / SOL/LAm7/RE
SOL LAm7
We've talked it to death, cryin' on the telephone.
DO
Nights when he drinks at home,
RE SOL/LAm7-D/
she has to whisper throught her tears.
SOL
LAm7
"Johnny," she says, "you'd never do these things to me."
DO RE
MIm/MI
But I can never make her see he's wasted such precious years.
LAm7 RE SOL
Well, "you married the wrong guy" is all I ever say.
CHORUS
SOL MI LAm SOL#+
He's a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go.
RE
SOL
Though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk.
DO SOL/LAm7-D/
She loves the jerk.
2nd Verse
SOL LAm7
He was the guy always out on the make.
DO RE
SOL/LAm7-D/
I guess he had what it takes to turn the heads of pretty girls.
SOL
LAm7
She thought he would change; the worst of us will settle down.
DO RE
MIm/MI
But he couldn't stay out of town, not even with this precious pearl.
LAm7 RE
SOL
Now she lives with the lies and the bumps and the bruises.
REPEAT CHORUS, THEN BRIDGE
BRIDGE
SOL7 DO RE SI7 MIm
Well, I hang up the phone and I pretend she's in my arms.
DO SI7 MIm
What I wouldn't give for just one-tenth
D E (Key modulates from G to
LA)
of what she gives Mister Charming.
CHORUS
LA FA# SIm SIb+
He's a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go.
MI MI7
Though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk.
N.C.
She loves the jerk.
OUTRO
A/D/A/D Repeat and fade
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