John Prine - The Great Compromise guitar chord

The Great Compromise

By John Prine

Capo 5

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I knew a girl who was almost a lady she had a way with all the men in her life

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Every inch of her blossoms in beauty she was born on the Fourth of July

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Well she lived in an aluminum house trailer and she worked in a juke-box saloon

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She’d spent all the money I'd give her just to see the old man in the moon

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I used to sleep at the foot of old glory

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And awake by the dawn’s early light

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But much to my surprise when I opened my eyes

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I was a victim of the great compromise

We used to go out on Saturday evening to the drive in on route Forty One

And it was there that I first discovered she was doin' what she'd already done

She said "Johnny, would you get me some popcorn” and she knew I had to walk pretty far

And as soon as I passed through the moonlight she'd hopped into a foreign sports car

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Well you know, I could'a beat up that fella but it was her that had hopped into his car

As many times as I'd fought to protect her but this time she's goin' too far

And some folks call me a coward cause I left her at the drive in that night

But I d'ruther have names thrown at me than to fight for a thing that aint right

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Well she writes all the fellas love letters sayin' please come and see me real soon

And they go and line up in the bar-room to spend a night in that sick woman’s room

But sometimes I get awful lonesome and I wish she were my girl instead

But she won't let me live with her and she makes me live in my head

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