Rodney Crowell – If The Law Dont Want You (Guitar)

Capo 5
Key
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Chords

[Intro] G Em7 A Em7 A
A                  Am7                  G
I love to see them straw dogs 'round my door,

     D                  Am7                    G
Come sneaking 'round my skirt tail looking for more,

       D             Am7
If you ain't running from the past,

Am7
You ain't making my heart beat fast,

    F
You ain't chugging your paycheck,

    D
You ain't hugging on my neck.

      Am                                     G
Well, I've been looking for trouble from the git,

     D                    Am7             G
Them cowboys back where I come from won't quit,

D                             Am7
Cutting up tires on an oyster shell,

Am7
Siren screaming and he's running like hell,

F
Momma's on the front porch staring him down,

D
Ladies at the beauty shop coming unwound.

       G         D                    G
If the law don't want you, neither do I,

        D
I ain't got no time to waste my shine,

     Am7                   C
On a puppet with a clip-on tie,

       G         D                    G
If the law don't want you, neither do I.

  F
I hired that boy to cut my grass,

G
Nailed down a shingle but it couldn't get past,

F
Staring at the bottom of his low-slung pants,

D
Says he's gonna take me to the big buck dance,

       G              D               G
If the law don't want you, neither do I.
[Break] A F D
  A                Am7     G
I used to run wild down in Mexico,

     D             Am7                G
Hair jacked up and necklines plunging low,

     D
Some snake hip shirt rip giving me lip,

Am7
Rifling my purse and stealing my tips,

        F
There's something 'bout a man can affect that lean,

D
Keeping his hat all yanked down mean.

       G         D                    G
If the law don't want you, neither do I,

                          D
Play born to lose and you light my fuse,

      Am7                     C
I'm a sucker for a bald-faced lie,

       G         D                    G Em
If the law don't want you, neither do I,

       G         D                    F G F G
If the law don't want you, neither do I.