That's What Keeps The Rent Down Baby chords by Corb Lund

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: D MajorD

🎸 Intro:

D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD



🎸 Verse 1:
D MajorD        B minorBm    G+G
Hush little baby don't you cry
D MajorD           A augmentedA
Please don't mind the screaming
D MajorD                B minorBm      G+G
From the man in the alley on the small of his back
   D MajorD         A augmentedA
The police man's knee is kneelin'
D MajorD           B minorBm   G+G
I'll tell you an open secret, child
  D MajorD      A augmentedA
Not everyone is knowin'
D MajorD              B minorBm    G+G
But if that little man ever left this place
    D MajorD        A augmentedA
You and I would soon be goin'

🎸 Chorus:
    D MajorD           B minorBm     G+G
'Cause that's what keeps the rent down, baby
D MajorD           A augmentedA     D MajorD
That's what keeps the rent down low
           B minorBm    G+G
That's what keeps the rent down baby
D MajorD           A augmentedA     D MajorD
That's what keeps the rent down low


🎸 Verse 2:
D MajorD               B minorBm  G+G
Your mama ain't rich, she's a music man
   D MajorD      A augmentedA
Your daddy he's a painter
D MajorD             B minorBm    G+G
We took over the lease on this old house
   D MajorD           A augmentedA
From men whose hearts were fainter
D MajorD                B minorBm
'Cause we don't mind the painted ladies
G+G     D MajorD         A augmentedA
With their weeping souls all swollen
D MajorD              B minorBm   G+G
And we don't mind that everyone we know
  D MajorD        A augmentedA
Has had their stereo stolen

🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD              B minorBm     G+G
'Cause that's what keeps the rent down, baby
D MajorD           A augmentedA     D MajorD
That's what keeps the rent down low
           B minorBm    G+G
That's what keeps the rent down baby
D MajorD           A augmentedA     D MajorD
That's what keeps the rent down low


Guitar 🎸 Solo:
D MajorD B minorBm D MajorD   B minorBm  D MajorD
A augmentedA D MajorD  A augmentedA D MajorD


🎸 Verse 3:
D MajorD          B minorBm   G+G
One fine morning you wake up to
  D MajorD       A augmentedA
Bulldozers and renovation
D MajorD               B minorBm
'Cause folks like your mom and dad
  G+G     D MajorD         A augmentedA
Are just shock troops of gentrification
    D MajorD        B minorBm
For the single young professionals
  D MajorD               A augmentedA
Who find the neighborhood hip and charming
D MajorD                    B minorBm        G+G
But if they heard about the lady who got chopped up in the alley
    D MajorD N.C.
They'd probably find it alarming


🎸 Chorus:
  D MajorD           B minorBm     G+G
And that's what keeps the rent down, baby
D MajorD           A augmentedA     D MajorD
That's what keeps the rent down low
           B minorBm    G+G
That's what keeps the rent down baby
D MajorD           A augmentedA      D MajorD
That's what keeps the rent down low