Chords for Loudon Wainwright III - House

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You ready baby?
Yes, [F#] yes dear. _ _
_ [F] _ This next song is, _ _ _ starting in 2009 I started to write songs
for the new depression so I could cash in _ and came up with ten of them.
_ [E] _ _ So _ _ _ [B] I envisioned
this song as [E] a kind of George Jones, Tammy Wynette duet.
_ I [Bm] actually wound up recording
it solo but then _ [G] I [G#] thought wow, [F] _ _ Loudon and Suzanne.
[B] _ _ _
So we're going to get Billy Shirell
to produce it in Nashville.
[G] _ _
_ [D] And _ _ [D] anyway, _
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ close enough for country. _ _ _ _ _ _
By way of the Upper West
Side, right?
Right.
_ _ Country and Western, Upper West Side.
_ We buy the morning paper, _ _ _ we read
the sports and [A] arts.
_ _ _ [B] We avoid the front page and the business [A] _
section breaks [E] our hearts.
_ _ The old bids are of interest, _ _ _ since soon we'll have to go.
_ _ _ [B] But what's unreal is the real
estate.
_ [A] _ _
It's a [Em] horror show.
_ _ _ There's no way we can sell our house now, _ _ _ so we'll have to
[A] stay.
_ _ _ [B] You can't up and walk out on me, _ [A] and I can't [E] run away.
_ _ We vowed in sickness and
in hell, _ _ that means good [A] times and bad.
_ [B] _
Let's hold on to each other dear, _ [A] and the happiness
[E] we have.
_ _ [A] _
Our bed should be a lifeboat now, _ [B] _
not a battlefield.
_ _ [A] Let's not give up, [Am] let's just give
in.
[E] Let's not stop, _ [B] let's just yield. _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ Forgive me dear for saying so, _ _ _ please don't [A] think I'm a louse.
_ _ _ [B] Maybe it's a good thing _ [A] we can't [E] sell our house.
All right, pick and Rich? _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Suppose we found a buyer.
Yeah. _ _
We could go our separate ways.
[A] Yeah.
_ _ [B]
And consider all our time together _ [A] just a [F#] passing
phase.
_ [E] _ _
But we would lose each other dear.
_ Yeah.
[A]
And I'm afraid we'd find _ it [B] _
was the best part of
ourselves _ [A] that _ we had left [E] behind.
_ _ _ I bought this house eight years ago.
_ I made this [A] place our home.
[B] We loved, fought and laughed and [A] cried.
Tears in our [E] eyes that showed. _ _ _
Our house has lost some value _ due to this [A] hard time.
_ _ [B] But selling it and splitting up [A] would be [E] the greatest crime.
_ [A] _ We had our share of heartache
_ _ _ [B] before these times got tough.
[A] _ The road's been a bit [Am] bumpy [E] and the ride _ [B] a little rough. _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ Death will part us one day in life's game of [A] cat and mouse.
_ [E] _ [B] Till then let's just stay together since we [E] can't sell our house.
_ _ We're in it for the long run dear. _
_ I'm speaking as your spouse.
_ _ [B] _ Happiness is here in our home.
[A] We can't [B] sell our [E] house. _ _ _ _ _
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