Key: E5

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Intro: E--A-B- x4


Verse 1:
E5             A5
If you ask me why 
  B5
I lie to you
E5
I can tell you I 
A5            B5
don't know myself
    E5              A5   B5
Its amazingly dishonest
        E5
But I'd have to 
     A5
recognize it
   B5         E5   A5 B5 E5 A5 B5
As part of myself


Verse 2:
E5
  Straighten up
A5     B5
  Why can't you 
E5
  straighten up
A5      B5
  I've heard you 
E5       B5
tell me this
   A5         B5
So many times
   E5       B5         A5 B5
It doesn't even stick
         E5           A5
I get it all the time
  B5      E5           A5
I get it all the time
    B5      E5
You know I love to
B5      A5         B5
make A joke of it


Verse 3:
    E5
And if you ask 
   A5     B5
me why I hurt you
  E5
I don't understand it
  A5            B5
I can't help myself
       E5           A5     B5
Its a special combination
   E5         A5
Of predatory instinct
    B5          E5   A5 B5 E5 A5 B5
And simple ill will


Chorus 1:
A5
I would give some
E5
thought to it
     A5
If I thought that
         Ab5 A5
it might do  me
B5      E5   A5
  Some good
B5    E5   A5 B5
Some good


Verse 4:
E5              A5
  Straighten up
    B5
Why can't you
E5              A5
  straighten up
    B5
You always
E5        B5
say I'll lose
   A5         B5
Control of it
    E5
And thirty is
B5          A5 B5
not too old


Chorus 2:
           A5
Well momma I
would give some
E5
thought to it
     A5
If I thought
that it
      Ab5 A5 B5
might do  me
     E5   A5
Some good
B5    E5   A5
Some good
B5    E5   A5
Some good
B5    E(hold)
Some good