G                    F
Bend but don't Break give befor you take
C
Always look em right in the eye
no cord                  G    F    C   G
These are words to live by.

[Verse 1]
G                   F
Jim proposed to sue she said I do
      C                      G
they eloped into a summer's night
G                  F
Heading for Loredo that's the way wind blew
C                            G
They got in their first real fight.
G                      F
Standing at the alter shoe's and her halter
       C                        G
Jim sweating out his Sunday best
G                           F
Looking all around them but nobody found them
    C                          G
And this is what the preacher said

[Chorus]
G                     F
Bend but don't break give before you take
C                            G
Always look em right in the eye
G                      F
Always have a reason dress right for the seaon
                             stop
C       G
Never cheat and never lie
                       G  F   C   G (2x's) Repeat from 1st G
Thes are words to live by

[Verse 2]
G                          F
Billy's washing dishes and all the time he wishes
C                        G
he could find a better way
G                          F
yea and no season had rain for a country singer
C                          G
bound for a life of that foutune and fame
G                           F
He wrote a couple songs and they got a long
           C                      G
into the hands of a bad Nashville man
G                       F
Playin on the radio and he ain't never seen no doe
C                       G
looks back down at them ugly pots and pans

[Chorus]
G                     F
Bend but don't break give before you take
C                            G
Always look em right in the eye
G                      F
Always have a reason dress right for the seaon
                             stop
C       G
Never cheat and never lie
                       G  F   C   G (2x's) Repeat from 1st G
Thes are words to live by

[Bridge]
C
You know time in our life are nervous and reckless
G
Sometimes it's hard just to get by
C
Ain't good to know that we can still grow.
D
So gimme one word ad tell me one time

[Verse 3]
G                        F
Always me and mother and never were no other
C                           G
Daddy died when I was just three
G                          F
Always understood that she did the best she could
C                            G
I needed someone right there momma would be
G                       F
I never thought twice to ask for advise
     C                  G
when I got crazy in my head
G                   F
What ever the cause she would slowly pause
C
And this is what momma said.