Chords for Lightnin' Hopkins - Short Haired Woman (Swarthmore Concert)

One time, _ _ _ this is a true song, this is the truth that ever I told. _ _
I said this and I mean it up until this day.
I don't want no woman if her hair ain't no longer mine.
Fact of the business, y'all don't know what them rats in wigs and things, you know, were.
Because y'all goes and have enough of your hair cut off to give somebody a wig, you know, that don't have no hair.
_ _ Yeah, where I come from, they just didn't grow hair too much, you know.
Whenever you see a girl with long hair, well, it's just pretty.
_ And all the boys would take it, that one girl, you know.
_ So last one night, we got in a fight over that girl.
I got whooped up, you know, and I went home dragging, you know.
I couldn't make it.
So _ I made this song, but I don't want no woman if her hair ain't no longer mine.
_ Yeah, I made that song.
[B] So the song go like this.
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_ _ [Ebm] I want you to listen to it good.
[Bb] Fact of [E] the business, you may not know, but I'll send [Eb] you into it.
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I don't want no woman _ [Ebm] _
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if her hair ain't [Eb] no longer mine. _ _ _
_ _ Listen good so you know what I'm talking about. _
I don't [Ab] want no woman _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] if her hair ain't [Abm] no [Eb] longer mine.
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_ _ _ Yeah, no shame, no good for nothing but [Bb] trouble.
You know what that [Ab] is.
_ That's keep you [Eb] buying rats all the time.
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_ _ _ Yeah, I carried my wife to the hairdresser, [Ebm] _ and this is what the hairdresser said.
She said, Sam, I can't straighten a woman's hair.
_ [Bbm] God knows I can't breathe her head.
[Ab] I told her no.
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[Ebm] If her hair [Ab] ain't no [Eb] longer mine. _ _ _
_ _ Yeah, no shame, [Bbm] no good for nothing but trouble.
You know what that is.
[Cm] _ [Ab] _ That's keep you buying rats [Ebm] all the time.
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But you know you can't help but think about them girls, _ _ _ short hair, long hair. _ _ _
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She was talking nice to me.
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ Don't get mad at me, Sam.
I said, why?
_ She's supposed to belong to the league.
I said, but the next time I take her out, God knows I got to buy you a [Ab] wig.
I just don't want no. _
_ _ _ _ _ Boy, if [Eb] her hair ain't no longer mine.
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_ _ _ Yeah, no [Bb] shame, no good for nothing [Bbm] but trouble.
You know what that is.
[Ab] _ That's keep you buying [Eb] rats all the time.
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_ _ Yeah, and I got on a good side of my baby.
I told her, darling, I said, _ [Ab] come on, let's go have some fun.
You know I went to make a swing out where the rat fell from.
I had like one for my bun and bun.
I just don't want no.
_ _ Jerry, _ if her hair ain't no longer [Eb] mine.
_ [Ab] _
[Eb] _ _ _ Yeah, no shame, [Bb] no good for nothing but trouble.
_ [Ab] _ That's keep you buying rats [Eb] all the time.
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Short hair, long hair. _ _ _ _
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