TAYLOR JOHNNIE - "cheaper to keep her" Tablature

Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:40:42 -0400
From: Andrew Rogers <rogers@hi.com>
Subject: t/taylor_johnnie/cheaper_to_keep_her.crd

"Cheaper To Keep Her"
(Mack Rice)

Intro:

C9 Db9 C9 Db9 [2X]
/ / / / / / / /

(spoken:) You tied up, you better stay tied up, 'cause it's cheaper
to keep her - this is from T, who says:

C7
It's cheaper ...
F7
It's cheaper to ...

Verse 1:

C7
When your little ...
F7
And you get an ...
G7
Five little children that ...
F7
Son, you're gonna pay some alim....

Chorus:

C7
That's why it's cheaper ....(1: help me say it, y'all)
F7 (2: everybody sing along with me)
It's cheaper to ....
G7
[1: When you get ....that judge ....
[2: By the time you get ....
F7
You're gonna want to cuss the.... whole human race
C7
That's why it's cheaper to ....
Eb7
[2: It's cheaper to keep her....
C7
(It's cheaper, it's cheaper...
(It's cheaper ....

Verse 2:

You didn't pay but two dollars to bring the .....
[repeat chorus]

Verse 3:

I know you think the grass is .....

Coda [background voices continue to fade]:

C7
That's why it's cheaper to ...
Eb7
It costs too much to leave ...
C7
I know it's ...
Eb7
'Cause you're gonna pay some ...
C7
I tell y'all - it's cheaper to ....
are ...
Eb7
It's cheaper to keep her, I ....

[continue to fade]


-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers