#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: Member2945@aol.com "She Loves the Jerk" by John Hiatt (on the CD "Riding with the King") Song was also covered by Rodney Crowell INTRO G / G/Am7/D G (320003@1) Am7We've (x02010@1)talked it to death, cryin' on the telephone. CNights (x32010@1)when he drinks at home, D (xx0232@1) G/Am7-D/ she has to whisper throught her tears. G (320003@1) Am7"Johnny," (x02010@1)she says, "you'd never do these things to me." C (x32010@1) D (xx0232@1) Em/E But I can never make her see he's wasted such precious years. Am7 (x02010@1) D (xx0232@1) GWell, (320003@1)"you married the wrong guy" is all I ever say. CHORUS G (320003@1) E (022100@1) Am (x02210@1) Ab+ He's a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go. D (xx0232@1) GThough (320003@1)she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk. C (x32010@1) G/Am7-D/ She loves the jerk. 2nd Verse G (320003@1) Am7He (x02010@1)was the guy always out on the make. C (x32010@1) D (xx0232@1) G/Am7-D/ I guess he had what it takes to turn the heads of pretty girls. G (320003@1) Am7She (x02010@1)thought he would change; the worst of us will settle down. C (x32010@1) D (xx0232@1) Em/E But he couldn't stay out of town, not even with this precious pearl. Am7 (x02010@1) D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) Now she lives with the lies and the bumps and the bruises. REPEAT CHORUS, THEN BRIDGE BRIDGE G7 (320001@1) C (x32010@1) D (xx0232@1) B7 (x21202@1) Em (022000@1)Well, I hang up the phone and I pretend she's in my arms. C (x32010@1) B7 (x21202@1) EmWhat (022000@1)I wouldn't give for just one-tenth D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) (Key modulates from Gto (320003@1)A) of what she gives Mister Charming. CHORUS A (x02220@1) F# (244322@1) Bm (x24432@1) Bb+ He's a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go. E (022100@1) E7 (020130@1) Though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk. N.C. She loves the jerk. OUTRO A/D/A/D Repeat and fade