Status Quo – Break The Rules (Guitar)

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(Rossi/Young/Parfitt/Coghlan/Lancaster) [Intro] | G5 | % | % | % | [Verse 1]
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Spent a long long evening in a low down honky-tonk bar

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Pulled a low down lady with a long black honky-tonk car

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I asked no questions, I got no lies

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I walked off with her, I didn't want any ties

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And I knew it wasn't right

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But everybody has to sometimes break the rules
[Verse 2]
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Took me down on the highway doin' too many miles an hour

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By that way she motor-talked we might have made the Eiffel Tower

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She stopped her motor by her own front door

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I knew she'd done it so many times before

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But I was offered the floor

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But everybody has to sometimes break the rules
[Instrumental] (Guitar) | G5 | % | % | % | | C5 | % | G5 | % | | D5 | % | G5 | % | (Harmonica) | G5 | % | % | % | | C5 | % | G5 | % | | D5 | % | G5 | % | | G5 | % | [Verse 3]
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I woke up next morning feeling kind of up and down

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'Cos I did not know if I was in or out of town

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Then I saw the face from the night before

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Purse was empty and lying there on the floor

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But like I told you before

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That everybody has to sometimes break the rules
[Verse 4]
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Spent a low down evening sitting high on a honky-tonk stool

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And I spent my money like a low down honky-tonk fool

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But everybody has to sometimes break the rules

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But everybody has to sometimes break the rules

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Yes, everybody has to sometimes break the rules