Cheaper To Keep Her chords by Johnnie Taylor

Chords with lyrics

"Cheaper To Keep Her"
               (Mack Rice)

Intro:

	C9C9  Db9Db9 C9C9  Db9Db9 [2X]
	/ / / /  / / / /

	(spoken:) You tied up, you better stay tied up, 'cause it's cheaper
    	 to keep her - this is from T, who says:

	   C7C7
	It's cheaper ...
	   F7F7
	It's cheaper to ...

Verse 1:

	 C7C7
	When your little ...
	 F7F7
	And you get an ...
	 G7G7
	Five little children that ...
	 F7F7
	Son, you're gonna pay some alim....

Chorus:

	         C7C7
	That's why it's cheaper ....(1: help me say it, y'all)
	   F7F7              (2: everybody sing along with me)
	It's cheaper to ....
	   G7G7
	[1: When you get ....that judge ....
	[2: By the time you get ....
	    F7F7
	You're gonna want to cuss the.... whole human race
	         C7C7
	That's why it's cheaper to ....
	Eb7Eb7
	  [2: It's cheaper to keep her....
	    C7C7
	(It's cheaper, it's cheaper...
	(It's cheaper ....

Verse 2:

	You didn't pay but two dollars to bring the .....
[repeat chorus]

Verse 3:

	I know you think the grass is .....

Coda [background voices continue to fade]:

	         C7C7
	That's why it's cheaper to ...
	           Eb7Eb7
	It costs too much to leave ...
	       C7C7
	I know it's ...
	               Eb7Eb7
	'Cause you're gonna pay some ...
	           C7C7
	I tell y'all - it's cheaper to ....
		are ...
	   Eb7Eb7
	It's cheaper to keep her, I ....

	[continue to fade]


-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers