G
She might have been a nice girl
                    Gsus4/A
If she hadn't had a draggy mother
                      G
She might have been a good chick
                    Gsus4/A
If she hadn't had a rotten father
                          G
She might have played the right hunch
                      Gsus4/A
If she hadn't been so narrow-minded
                     G
She might have had a whole bunch
                      Gsus4/A
If she hadn't been so far behind it

[Chorus]
           F
Oh does it hurt when you know
          C                         G
You can't play it the way that your beau knows
           F
Oh does it hurt when you know
          C                        G
You can't say it the way that your beau knows
        F                    C            G
And you know that that's the way that the show goes
        Am                       Em       
And you know it really has to go on

[Verse 2]
                     G
She drank the army's red wine
                      Gsus4/A
But she never found a moment's pleasure
                      G
She smelled the salty sea brine
                        Gsus4/A
But she never found the buried treasure
                          G
She might have played the chords right
                       Gsus4/A
But the song was never meant for singing
                      G
She might have really broke loose
                      Gsus4/A
But she never made it past the clinging

[Chorus]
                  F
I can see that it hurts when you know
          C                         G
You can't play it the way that your beau knows
                  F
I can see that it hurts when you know
          C                        G
You can't say it the way that your beau knows
        F                    C            G
And you know that that's the way that the show goes
        Am                       Em       
And you know it really has to go on