Corb Lund – Thats What Keeps The Rent Down Baby (Guitar)

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Hush little baby don't you cry

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Please don't mind the screaming

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From the man in the alley on the small of his back

      D                  A
The police man's knee is kneelin'

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I'll tell you an open secret, child

    D           A
Not everyone is knowin'

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But if that little man ever left this place

        D               A
You and I would soon be goin'

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'Cause that's what keeps the rent down, baby

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That's what keeps the rent down low

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That's what keeps the rent down baby

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That's what keeps the rent down low

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Your mama ain't rich, she's a music man

     D            A
Your daddy he's a painter

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We took over the lease on this old house

     D                     A
From men whose hearts were fainter

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'Cause we don't mind the painted ladies

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With their weeping souls all swollen

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And we don't mind that everyone we know

    D                A
Has had their stereo stolen

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'Cause that's what keeps the rent down, baby

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That's what keeps the rent down low

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That's what keeps the rent down baby

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That's what keeps the rent down low

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One fine morning you wake up to

    D              A
Bulldozers and renovation

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'Cause folks like your mom and dad

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Are just shock troops of gentrification

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For the single young professionals

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Who find the neighborhood hip and charming

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But if they heard about the lady who got chopped up in the alley

       D  N.C.
They'd probably find it alarming

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And that's what keeps the rent down, baby

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That's what keeps the rent down low

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That's what keeps the rent down baby

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That's what keeps the rent down low