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rodney crowell - she loves the jerk lyrics

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g / g/am7/d

g am7
we’ve talked it to death, cryin’ on the telephone.
c
nights when he drinks at home,
d g/am7-d/
she has to whisper throught her tears.
g

am7
“johnny,” she says, “you’d never do these things to me.”
c d
em/e
but i can never make her see he’s wasted such precious years.
am7 d g
well, “you married the wrong guy” is all i ever say.

chorus

g e am ab+
he’s a no good so and so, but she’ll never let him go.
d
g
though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk.
c g/am7-d/
she loves the jerk.

2nd verse

g am7
he was the guy always out on the make.
c d
g/am7-d/
i guess he had what it takes to turn the heads of pretty girls.
g

am7
she thought he would change; the worst of us will settle down.
c d
em/e
but he couldn’t stay out of town, not even with this precious pearl.
am7 d
g
now she lives with the lies and the b-mps and the bruises.

repeat chorus, then bridge

bridge
g7 c d b7 em
well, i hang up the phone and i pretend she’s in my arms.
c b7 em
what i wouldn’t give for just one-tenth
d e (key modulates from g to
a)
of what she gives mister charming.

chorus

a f# bm bb+
he’s a no good so and so, but she’ll never let him go.
e e7

though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk.
n.c.
she loves the jerk.

outro

a/d/a/d repeat and fade

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