Standard (EADGBE)

  C : You're the reason I'm a-ridin' around on recapped tyres.

  L : And you're the reason I'm hangin' our clothes outside on wires.

 You're the reason our kids are ugly, little darlin'.

 Ah, but looks ain't ev'rythin', and money ain't ev'rythin',

 but I love you just the same.

  C : You're the reason I've changed to beer from soda pop.

  L : And you're the reason I never get to go to the beauty shop.

Chorus

  I guess that we won't ever have everything we need,

  ‘cause when we get "ahead", it's got another mouth to feed.

  L : And that's the reason that my good looks and my figure is gone.

  C : And that's the reason that I ain't got no hair to comb.

CHORUS

conversation

L : Conway, why in the devil don't you go and shave

and put on a clean pair of pants?

C : But Loretta, look at yourself. Now I wish you'd take them curlers out

of your hair and go put on a little makeup and get out of that

housecoat before supper.

L : Ha, well, let me tell you something, Conway, considerin' everything

that I went through today, I look like a movie star.

C : Eh-he-yeah, Ruth Buzzie.

L : Thankyee.

C : Besides that, all our kids took after your part of the family, anyway.

L : Oh they did, huh? What about’s the ones that's bald?

C : Ha ha ha, well, I guess you could say they take after me

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