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 abouts the ones that's bald?
C : Ha ha ha, well, I guess you could say they take after me
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