John Hiatt – She Loves The Jerk (Guitar)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: [email protected] "She Loves the Jerk" by John Hiatt (on the CD "Riding with the King") Song was also covered by Rodney Crowell INTRO 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 bumps 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