Chords for Chris Smither - No Love Today

_ _ [B] This is [Am] a song that actually has [F] a character [E] in it from my childhood.
_ [F#] When I was growing up in New [D#] Orleans, we used to have a fruit and vegetable man that would come down [B] the street
[F] twice a week.
And when I was a little kid, it was a mule-drawn wagon,
and then he graduated to a pickup truck.
And his son would drive the pickup truck
[D#] at a walking pace, [E] and he would _ walk along beside it,
and you could hear him coming for blocks away, [N] because he would sing at the top of his lungs about
what he had on the truck.
And he'd always start with,
I got, that was the top of the menu.
I got, and it would sound like,
_ _ I got beans, I got red beans, black beans,
all kind of beans, sweet corn, _ sweet corn,
_ Molotow, okra, okra,
I got banana, ice cold watermelon,
all these housewives would just pour out of their houses. _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
So he's in this song.
_ _ [D#] I should tell you, a merloton,
a merloton is a kind of squash, a little [B] green squash.
[F] Other parts of the country, they call them [D#] chayote squash, but [E] if you ever hear anybody
call it a merloton, you can bet that they are [Bm] from within 50 miles of New Orleans.
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] I don't know much [F#] when I knew less
than I was heartbroke [Bm] for the first time.
_ _ _ I was drowning in my tears and I went [F#] looking for a lifeline.
[Bm] I was trying to find some comfort, [Em] just a simple tender touch. _
[A] Searching for [Em] some little cure [F#] that would not cost too much.
[G] And I could hear that produce wagon [Bm] on the street. _
And [G] I could hear that farmer singing [A] as I cried myself to sleep.
_ _ I got [B] banana and watermelon [F#] and peaches by the pond.
[Bm] Sweet corn, merloton, [F#] more better than in town.
[B] I got okra, it's enough to choke [Em] you, beans of every kind.
[E] As hungry [Em] as what's eating you, I'll [F#] sell you a piece of mine.
[G] Oh, but this ain't what you came to hear [Bm] me say.
_ [G] And I hate to disappoint you, [A] but I got no love today. _ _
[B] I got no love [F#] today. _
I [F#m] got no love [F#] today. _
No love today. _ _ _ _
_ I [B] could not love to save myself from [F#] lonesome desperation.
Everything I thought was love was worthless imitation.
[F#m] And my [B] concept of commitment was [Em] to take all you could give.
[E] I thought the cheapest [Em] thrills I [F#] loved were teaching me to live.
[G] But nothing seemed to last or [Bm] see me through.
_ _ [G] Nothing but that little [A] song that I still sing for you.
_ _ I got banana and watermelon [F#] and peaches by the pond.
[Bm] Sweet corn, [B] merloton, more [F#] better than in town.
[B] I got okra, it's enough to [Em] choke you, beans of every kind.
[E] As hungry as [Em] what's eating you, [F#] I'll sell you a piece of mine.
[G] Oh, but this ain't what you came to [B] hear me say.
_ [G] And I hate to disappoint you, [A] but I got no love today. _
[B] I got no _ love [F#] today. _
I [F#m] got no love today.
No [Bm] love today.
_ _ [F#] _ _
_ [B] No love today, none [F#] tomorrow, not now, not forever.
[Bm] You can't see what comes for [F#] free.
I think you're much too clever [B] for your own good.
I'll tell you [Em] what's right before your eyes.
[E] _ Intelligence [Em] is no defense [F#] against what this implies.
[G] In the end, no one will sell you what [B] you need.
You [G] can't buy it off the shelf.
[A] You got to grow it from the seed.
_ I got [B] banana and watermelon [F#] and peaches by the pond.
[B] Sweet corn, merloton, [F#] more better than in town.
[B] I got okra, it's enough to choke [Em] you, beans of every kind.
[E] As hungry [Em] as what's eating [F#] you, I'll sell you a piece of mine.
[G] Oh, but this ain't what you came to hear [B] me say.
_ [Bm] _ [G] And I hate to disappoint you, _ _ _ but I'm gonna disappoint you.
[A] I got no love [F#] today. _
_ I got no _ love today. _
I [F#m] got no _ love [F#] today.
No [Bm] love today.
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[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _