• Song:

    Wife Beater

  • Artist:

    Drive-by Truckers

  • Album:

    Gangstabilly

Off of Gangstabilly

Tuned down a whole step

GYou (320003@1)met him at the dance hall
    D (xx0232@1)
You only saw his charms
    C (x32010@1)                               GYou (320003@1)said he really swept you off your feet

Then one night he's drinking
    Dand (xx0232@1)jealousy enraged
   C (x32010@1)                           GHe (320003@1)knocked out two of your front teeth


G (320003@1)                 Dso (xx0232@1)you came over to hide out at my place
C (x32010@1)                                        GI (320003@1)guess I should have killed him there and then
Gbut (320003@1)you begged me not to
Dnow (xx0232@1)you say he's changed
    C (x32010@1)                     Gand (320003@1)you're gonna go back to him


G (320003@1)                           DDon't (xx0232@1)give me that bull about how it's for the children
C (x32010@1)                              GA (320003@1)man like that could never be a dad
GWhat (320003@1)happens when he kills you?
DWhat (xx0232@1)will they do then?
C (x32010@1)                                 GSometimes (320003@1)you ought to ask yourself that


C (x32010@1)                         GDon't (320003@1)go back to him he's a wife beater
     D (xx0232@1)                      GYou'd (320003@1)be better off with this potato eater
C (x32010@1)                         G (320003@1)  EmYou (022000@1)say he's changed, don't be a fool
G (320003@1)                  D (xx0232@1)      G (320003@1)A man like that's no good for you
G (320003@1)                  D (xx0232@1)      GA (320003@1)man like that's no good for you


lyrics by Patterson Hood
music by Drive-by Truckers (Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, Neff)
? 1998 Soul Dump Music

Tabbed by D-PAC

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