Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat Chords by David Allan Coe

Now I lay me [C] down to cheat _ [D] on the woman I [G] love so. _ _
And if I die between [Am] these sheets, _ [D]
I pray to God she'll [G] never know. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ She's the best [Am] thing in his life.
[D] While she [G] worships the ground, he walks on. _ _
_ _ _ _ She waits up for him at night [Am] and worries [D] until [G] he's safely home. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ She always believes his [Bm] stories about working overtime.
_ [Am] And in twenty years beside him, [D]
cheatin's never crossed her mind.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ [D] Ah, but it crossed his [G]
early last summer.
_ In the person of a neighbor, she still calls her [Am] friend.
_ [D] _ _ [G]
And with a little push from [A] drinking one [G] too many, one night in the fall, he gazed in.
[Am]
And now, _ [Bm] he wishes he could stop himself, but [Am] there's no easy way.
So he lays [D] down with his lover, and silently he prays.
Now [E] I lay me down [C] to cheat _ [D] on the woman I [G] love so. _ _
And if I die between [Am] these sheets, _ [D]
I pray to God she'll [G] never know.
_ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ In his heart and [Bbm] soul, [Eb] he knew that he was playing a game he [Ab] could never win. _ _ _ _
But you know, forbidden fruit is sweet.
_ _ [Bbm] _
[Eb] Why, it was sweet enough to make [Ab] him risk it all again. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ And now, [Cm] he's given up on looking for a way to fight the feeling.
[Bbm] So he prays this simple prayer [Eb] and hopes it makes it past the motel ceiling.
Now I lay me [Db] down to cheat _ [Eb] on the woman I [Ab] love so.
_ _ And if I die [Bbm] between these sheets, _ [Eb] I pray to God [Ab] she'll never know. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _