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CmShould I betray you to your spouse?
D7The wife who waits back at the house
BbmShe doesn’t know that you’re a louse
That’s Fmnot the man she wed
She doesn’t know the deals you make
The throats you cut, the vows you break
To buy up some old lady’s stake
Quick before she’s dead
C#mShe doesn’t see your oily smarm
You G#sus4pour on in the place of charm
C#mWhen you’ve got some shopgirl by the arm
G#sus4Steering her into bed
That virgin forest you chopped down
To build another ugly town
I’ll tell your wife you bribed them round
To back your plan instead
But perhaps she doesn’t want to see
The heel that you turned out to be
That’s why she’ll take a gin or three
To drive doubts from her head
While she’s working hard enough
With housework, kids, and all that stuff
You’re out there with some bit of fluff
Cruising on the Med
She thought the leopard’s spots were paint
She thought she’d turn you to a saint
Kept hoping, though the hope grew faint
That you were better bred    

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Should I Betray

by Richard Thompson

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Chords in this song · guitar

Bbm

C#m

G#sus4

Should I betray you to your spouse?

The wife who waits back at the house

Bbm

She doesn’t know that you’re a louse

That’s not the man she wed

She doesn’t know the deals you make

The throats you cut, the vows you break

To buy up some old lady’s stake

Quick before she’s dead

C#m

She doesn’t see your oily smarm

G#sus4

You pour on in the place of charm

C#m

When you’ve got some shopgirl by the arm

G#sus4

Steering her into bed

That virgin forest you chopped down

To build another ugly town

I’ll tell your wife you bribed them round

To back your plan instead

But perhaps she doesn’t want to see

The heel that you turned out to be

That’s why she’ll take a gin or three

To drive doubts from her head

While she’s working hard enough

With housework, kids, and all that stuff

You’re out there with some bit of fluff

Cruising on the Med

She thought the leopard’s spots were paint

She thought she’d turn you to a saint

Kept hoping, though the hope grew faint

That you were better bred

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