Guy Clark – Howd You Get This Number (Guitar)

A
Sorry 'bout your mama, sorry 'bout your pa

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Sorry about the business with your brother-in-law

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Hard cheese about the money man, hard cheese about the stocks

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Hard cheese about you being up to your ears in hock

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Tough luck about your luggage, tough luck about your socks

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Tough luck about the way that the other shoe drops

D
Too bad about your girlfriend, too bad about your wife

A
Too bad about the thing you call the rest of your life

     D
Hey, how'd you get this number man - who do you think you're talking to?

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Now who do you think you are kidding, what do you want me to do?

D
How'd you get this number man, please don't make me laugh

             E
You know you ought to be on TV with a line like that

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I heard about the car rent, I heard about the fail

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I heard about the time you was in jail all night

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I know you don't like trouble and I know you don't like to fight

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I know that you could argue with a fence post all night

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I heard about the lampshade, how you had it on your head

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I heard you told a joke and knocked the whole room dead

D
No kidding about the car sir, no kidding about the junk

A
No kidding about you being in a deep blue funk

     D
Hey, how'd you get this number man - who do you think you're talking to?

A
Now who do you think you are kidding, what do you want me to do?

D
How'd you get this number, please don't make me laugh

    E
You ought to be on TV with a line like that

The approximate tab for the intro is shown below:
    sl             sl sl sl     sl               b    x2         x2
e|-----------------------------------3------------------|----------|
B|-3--5--3--1-----3--5--3--1---3--5-----5--3--1--3--1---|----------|
G|-------------2---------------------------------------2|-0--1--2--|
D|------------------------------------------------------|----------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|----------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|----------|