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.