Ain’t love a bitch    (video)

 

    C - G - Am (2x)

 

   C                G                  Am                                 Dm               - F

1.    Been in pain and I’ve been in shame, but ain’t love a bitch,

      C                G                     Am                                Dm               - F

    I’ve been in fights, locked away for nights, but ain’t love a bitch !

                  C              G        Am                                            Dm           - F

  I’ve been tailed, impaled, strung up and nailed and left without a stitch,

                         C                 G            Am                             Dm            - F

    I’ve been scratched and taxed and finally axed, but ain’t love a bitch !

 

Dm                                                   C

    Oh, I didn’t understand till I was seventeen,

Dm                                                        C

    she took me way upstairs and she wiped me clean.

Am                                                  F

    Oh, I didn’t realize she made a first class fool out of me,

Dm                                                              F               G

    oh, Maggie, if you’re still out there, the rest is history.

 

    C                   G                Am                         Dm                 - F

2.    You’re all alone in the freezing cold by the underground,

          C           G                        Am                                       Dm          - F

your hands a numb and you’re feeling dumb cause you’ve been let down.

                C                        G             Am                                Dm       - F

    You thought you were rough and kinda tough and maybe out of reach,

                 C        G                Am                                Dm                 - F

    you’re acting chic, playing hide and seek, but ain’t love a bitch !

 

Dm                                                           C

    Oh, I must state right here I’ve been there before,

          Dm                                                                           C

    my eyes were closed, and so my friends, I still don’t know the score.

Am                                                  F

    Oh, I don’t underestimate the strength of it,

       Dm                                                       F                - G

    it may be unwise to analyze even the cause of it.

 

    C                         G      Am                                    Dm        - F

3.    You’re driving home late one night, and on the radio

C                   G      Am                     Dm                - F

    comes an old familiar song you know so well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dm                                              C

    Oh, I can’t comprehend this thing called love,

Dm                                                   C

    maybe it’s a matter of fact I just can’t grow up.

Am                                               F

    Deep down ain’t we all a little juvenile ?

Dm                                                   G

    All I really wanna know, is there one sweet angel

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    that can make me smile ?

 

+  C - G - Am (5x)

 

          C         G       Am                                            Dm                  - F

4. Torrential rains, wars and hurricanes, I wouldn’t budge an inch,

             C            G                   Am                                   Dm               - F

    your rent’s unpaid and your team lose again, but ain’t love a bitch !

                C             G            Am                                            Dm           - F

 You can lose your job, your home and your health, but ain’t love a bitch ?

     C             G          Am                                         Dm                     - F

    take it or leave it, some day you’ll feel it, ’cause love is the bitch.

 

    C - G - Am           C        G       - Am

+                     Ain’t love a bitch !

C - G - Am            C - G - Am   G        C        - G - Am

                    Ain’t lo............ve, love a bitch !

         C        G       - Am           C        G        - Am

Ain’t love a bitch !           Ain’t love a bitch !

  C            - G     Am

Ain’t love        a bitch !

 

+  C - G - Am (3x) ….

 

    (Rod Stewart)