Chords
I'd Have Been Out of Jail By Now

Key: D

Introduction:

difficulty
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stew
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When a stranger walked in, stood there beside me, and plopped down there like a fool
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He started drinkin' then he started talkin' 'bout things that were wrong in his life
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The more that I heard, the more I believed, the thing that was wrong was his wife
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He said you talk about beauty, when we first met she was all that a man could desire
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Talk about love, one night with her would set your very soul afire
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But love's little flame is out of control, 'bout 3 feet high from behind
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Since we've been married I've come to believe that love is of the dumb and the blind, no offense
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You talk about ugly, when she gets mad, she goes from Jekyll to Hyde
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She grits her teeth, then her eyes roll back, pivot from side to side
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She completely rewrites the whole English language, 4-letter, descriptive and loud
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Now I can't out-think her, but I can sure out-drink her, and that's what I'm doin' here now
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'Cause I've spent 7 years with the wrong woman
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Seven and goin' on eight
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She spent 7 years naggin' and eatin'
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I'm over-wrought and she's overweight
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If I try leavin' she has me arrested
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Takes her own sweet time gettin' me out
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If she ain't number 1, she's in the top 2
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Of the things I could live without
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Men commit murder and all kinds of mayhem
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In a few years they're back on the street
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Highway robbery and white collar crime
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And they laugh at the system they reap
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Sometimes I'm tempted, sometimes I'm ashamed
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Of the things the law will allow
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I coulda killed her when I first met her
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And I'd a been out of jail by now