Chords for John Prine That's the way the World goes round

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John Prine That's the way the World goes round chords
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Yes, that's after the second verse.
First you get their attention.
[Eb]
[Ab]
[C] [Eb]
[Bb] [Eb]
[Ab] [Eb]
I [Gm] know a guy that's got a lot to lose.
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Bb
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Eb
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Ab
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Yes, that's after the second verse. _ _
First you get their attention.
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ I [Gm] know a guy that's got a lot to lose.
He's [Ab] a pretty nice fella.
Kind of confused.
He's [Eb] got muscles in his head.
He never makes use.
Takes the [Cm] owner's half of [Bb] this town. _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] Started drinking heavy, got a big red nose.
Beat his own lady with a rubber hose.
Then he took her out the center, bought her new clothes.
That's the [C] way that the world goes round. _
_ That's the way that the world goes round.
[Ab] You're up one day, _ next you're down.
[Eb] It's a half an inch of water, you think you're gonna drown.
_ That's the [Gm] way that the world [Eb] goes round. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ You're gonna swallow. _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ I was sitting in the bathtub, counting on my [Ab] toes, the radiator broke.
_ Water all froze, it [Eb] got stuck in the ice.
Without my clothes, _ naked as [Bb] the eyes of a tramp. _ _ _ _
[Eb] I was crying, ice cubes, hoping I'd crawl.
[Ab] I slumped under the window, the ice all broke.
[Eb] I stood up and laughed, thought it was a joke.
That's the [Bb] way that the world [Eb] goes round. _ _
_ _ _ _ That's the way that the world goes round.
[Ab] You're up one day, next you're down.
It's a half an inch of water, you think you're gonna drown.
That's [Bb] the way that the world [Eb] goes round. _ _ _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I was playing in the San Francisco area one night, at this little club.
_ And this girl came up to the side of the stage and said, hey John, _ would you play that song for me?
_ I said, what [F] song?
_ She said, you know, the one that makes me feel so good. _ _ _ _
I thought, oh God, I wrote a lot of feel good songs.
_ _ _ _ _ I said, what one would that be?
She said, you know, _ the one [Cm] about the enchilada. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ The happy enchilada.
_ _ _ And I thought, _ well, _ turns out I knew the girl.
She was the ex-wife [Bbm] of this saxophone [Eb] player in the Bay Area.
_ _ [Bb] _
[Gm] I thought, well, maybe I'd better go party once or something.
[Bb] _
[Eb] You know, [F] beat up a song about the food, just to kind of impress [A] her.
Oh, _ [F] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [C] I knew that couldn't be.
[Abm] _ _ _ [F] _ But you see, I [Gm] got this file cabinet I keep at home. _
I manage to hang on to it through three [Eb] marriages.
That's not easy.
_ _ All I keep in this file cabinet are words that I would never use.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Enchilada is [Eb] one of them.
_ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ So I looked directly at her and I said, you know, there's a distinct possibility
that you might have me mixed up with some other singer songwriter.
_ You know, maybe somebody like _ Jimmy Buffett or [Ab] somebody. _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ He writes songs about food.
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So she said, I wish you'd just sing the song. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I said, well, tell me how it goes.
She said, it's a happy enchilada and you think you're going to drink it. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ That's the way that the world goes [Ab] round.
You have one day, the next you're down.
You [Eb] _ _
take your pick and run.
_ _ [Bb] That's the way that the world [Eb] goes round.
That's the way that the world goes round.
That's the way [Bb] that the world goes _ round.
_ [Eb] Goes round. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ I [Eb] heard Nora Jo sing that one. _ _ _ _
And when she sang, _ Naked Disguise of a Clown,
I thought I was going to [Ab] jump out of my seat.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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