By Rush Olson, Kevin Rothstein, Dean Pauley

Verse :

A) I’ll clean up all that junk in the yard

E) Fix all the stuff I said was too hard

A) Make baloney sandwich lunch for the kids

D) Even pick up what the dog done did

A) I’d rather take any risk, pay any fee

E) than let you leave me

A) I’ll get a better job than workin’ for my brother

E) Come straight home instead of havin’ another

A) If Sissy can’t do her homework I’ll try to learn her

D) Take you out somewhere nicer than Whataburger

A) Better poked in the eye so I can’t even see

E) than let you leave me

A) I’ll blackmail the tax man to leave us alone

E) Pay the mortgage, we can stay in our motor home

A) Instead of Coors Light I’ll get you some Chardonnay

D) Skip Monday Night Football to go to the ballet

A) I’d sooner get your stupid cat outta that tree

E) than let you leave me

(Instrumental on a 1-4-5 progression in A)

Bridge (extended on A, building to end) :

I’d rather get down on my knees

Beg and plead

Give all my money away for free

Feel the heat

Then get locked in a deep freeze

Swear off drinking my Forty Creek whisky

Bribe a priest

To put a blessing on me

I’d have to pay the man, I ain’t Catholic you see

Make a plea

Get ‘em to pass a decree

I might go all the way to Washington D-C

Buy a piece

Shoot your boss that’s a creep

Dump his body down by the levy

Score some freebies

I’ll pay for some surgery

You can go from B to double-D

Plant a seed

Hug a mesquite tree

Mind my Qs and Ps and even say please (stop time) . . . (E) than let you leave me

1-2-3-4!

Verse :

A) Honey I love you but you might not have noticed

E) I got lots of faults but please just know this

A) I’m gonna come up with a way to convince you

D) That I’m more than my number three Dale Senior tattoo

A) Try one more time to get that damn GED

E) than let you leave me

E) than let you leave me

E) than let you leave me (A) (x3)

E – stop time) Aw, on second thought, that’s too much trouble. The hell with it. Just go on . . .

1-2-3-4! (fast)

A-D-A