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Love's the Only House - Martina McBride - Key = G, capoed on 2 = Key of A Intro: G - C - D* 2X (Harmonica on 2nd round) (D* means variations with sus2 and sus4)
G I was standing in the C grocery store line, the [D*] one marked "Express", when this G woman came through with about C 25 things. And I said, [D*] "Don't you know that more is less'"
She said this G world is moving so C fast, I just [D*] get more behind every day G And every morning when I C make my coffee, I can't be- [D*] lieve my life has turned out this way. All I can say is -
Chorus: G Love's the only house C big enough for all the [D*] pain in the world G Love's the only house C big enough for all the [D*] pain
G He was walking by the C other day and I said, [D*] "Hey, baby, how yah been'" G Yeah! I got a little girl C now and she's four years old and [D*] she's got her daddy's little grin G You only wanted what C you can't have, and baby [D*] you can't have me now I gave my heart to G another yeah, I'm a C mother and he's a father and we're a [D*] family and we got each other and I found out the hard way that -
CHORUS (lead harmony), then 4 measure instrumental with harmonica
G You drive 3 miles from all this C prosperity, down across the [D*] river and you see a ghetto there. [G/Bm**] We got children walking around with C guns and they got knives and [D*] drugs and pain to spare. G And here I am in my clean C white shirt with a little money in my [D*] pocket and a nice warm home. G/Bm We got teenagers C walking around in a culture of darkness [D*] living together alone.
CHORUS (lead harmony)
Refrain: Em And no, I can't explain it, A and I can't understand it, C but I'll come and get my hands dirty and D together we'll make a stand.
Mostly Bass G Someone across the parking lot, C some band's playing out a tune. D City streets are gonna burn if we don't do somethin' soon G Senorita can't quit crying, C baby's die now any day. D Don Juan left, got sick of trying. No one there to show him the way.
G She came down to the C grocery store, she D said, "I, I wanna buy a little carton of milk, but I don't have any money." G/Bm I said C hey, "I'll cover you honey." D D Cause the pain got to go somewhere ( G/Bm I don't have any money, I don't have any C money) [D] Yeah, the pain's gotta go someplace, so come on down to my house. [G/Bm - C - D] 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.