Key = G, capoed on 2 = Key of A Intro: G - C - D9 D11 2X (Harmonica on 2nd round) G C D9 D11 G I was standing in the grocery store line, the one marked "Express", when this C woman came through with about 25 things. And I said, [D * ] "Don't you know that more is less?" G C D9 D11 She said this world is moving so fast, I just get more behind every day G C D9 D11 And every morning when I make my coffee, I can't be- lieve my life has turned out this way. All I can say is - G C D9 D11 Chorus: Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world G C D9 D11 Love's the only house big enough for all the pain G C D9 D11 He was walking by the other day and I said, "Hey, baby, how yah been?" G C D9 D11 Yeah! I got a little girl now and she's four years old and she's got her daddy's little grin G C D9 D11 You only wanted what you can't have, and baby you can't have me now G C D9 D11 I gave my heart to another yeah, I'm a mother and he's a father and we're a family and we got each other and I found out the hard way that - CHORUS (lead harmony), then 4 measure instrumental with harmonica G C D9 D11 You drive 3 miles from all this prosperity, down across the river and you see a ghetto there. G Bm C D9 D11 We got children walking around with guns and they got knives and drugs and pain to spare. G C D9 D11 And here I am in my clean white shirt with a little money in my pocket and a nice warm home. G Bm C D9 D11 We got teenagers walking around in a culture of darkness living together alone. CHORUS (lead harmony) Em A C Refrain: And no, I can't explain it, and I can't understand it, but I'll come and D get my hands dirty and together we'll make a stand. G C Mostly Bass Someone across the parking lot, some band's playing out a tune. D City streets are gonna burn if we don't do somethin' soon G C D Senorita can't quit crying, baby's die now any day. Don Juan left, got sick of trying. No one there to show him the way. G C D She came down to the grocery store, she said, "I, I wanna buy a little carton of milk, G Bm C D but I don't have any money." I said hey, "I'll cover you honey." D G Bm C Cause the pain got to go somewhere ( I don't have any money, I don't have any D money) G Bm C D Yeah, the pain's gotta go someplace, so come on down to my house. Don't you know that - CHORUS 2X [1st is lead harmony, 2nd is background harmony with lead vocal] [Don't you know that love's the only house; Yeah eah eah eah eah eah eah eah, Yeah eah eah.] Outro: G - C - D G - C - D G - C - D G *G/Bm = Bass plays B (Bm implied) over "G" chord or Bm may be played on guitar.
