The White Stripes – Effect And Cause (Guitar)

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From the album "Icky Thump" If you have heard their cover of Loretta Lynn's "Rated X", it is very similar, strumming wise. [Intro] A E A [Verse]
A                                         E                    A
I guess you have to have a problem if you want to invent a contraption

A                                                  E
First you cause a train wreck, then you put me in traction

A
First came an action, then a reaction

        D
But you can't switch around for your own satisfaction

          A                             E           A
Well, you burnt my house down, then got mad at my reaction

A                              E                     A
Well, in every complicated situation of the human relation

A                                                  E
To make sense of it all, takes a whole lotta concentration

A
Well, you can't blame a baby, for her pregnant ma

       D
And if there's one of these unavoidable laws

              A                     E                    A
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
[Chorus]
          D                    D
You can't take the effect, and make it the cause

         A                       A
I didn't rob a bank, because you made up the law

      D                     D
Blame me for robbing Peter, don't you blame Paul

          A
You can't take the effect and make it the cause
[Verse]
A                                      E                     A
I ain't the reason that you gave me no reason to return your call

A                                                            E
You built a house of cards and got shocked when you saw them fall

A
Well, I ain't saying I'm innocent, in fact the reverse

              D
But if you're headed to the grave, you don't blame the hearse

A                                        E                           A
You're like a little girl yelling at her brother 'cause you lost his ball

A                                      E                   A
Well, you keep blaming me for what you did, and that ain't all

A                                                  E
The way you clean up a wreck is enough to give one pause

A
You seem to forget just how this all started

      D 
I'm reacting to you because you left me broken hearted

A                             E                     A
See, you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
[Chorus]
          D                    D
You can't take the effect, and make it the cause

         A                       A
I didn't rob a bank, because you made up the law

      D                     D
Blame me for robbing Peter, don't you blame Paul

          A
You can't take the effect, and make it the cause
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