No Pain, (No Gain) Chords

_ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Dm] Ooh, [Cm] _ _ [C] _
[Bb] my baby and [Dm] I are back together [Cm] again.
Loving is better than a share of a [Bb] day.
If it weren't for the [Dm] trials we've been through,
[Cm] I'd never have the courage to come back to you.
[Bb] We're all [Dm] entitled to make a [Cm] mistake.
We've got to prepare [F] for some hard way.
[Bb] I was earning my [Dm] man while I was learning my [Cm] man.
Something you young girls might not [Bb] understand.
No pain, [Dm] _ [Cm] no gain.
_ [Eb] No.
[Bb] No pain, [Dm] no [Cm] gain. _ _
[Bb] There was a [Dm] lady sitting under a [Cm] tree.
She called me [Eb] over and she said to [Bb] me,
my days left [Dm] here may not be long.
[Cm] I wouldn't waste my time telling you nothing [Bb] wrong.
But love is a [Dm] flower that needs a sun and the [Cm] rain.
A little bit of [Eb] pleasure is worth a whole lot of [Bb] pain.
If you learn this [Dm] secret, how to [Cm] forgive,
a longer and a better life you'll [Bb] live.
No pain, [Dm] no [Cm] gain.
_ [F] Mm, [Bb] no pain, [Dm] no [Cm] gain.
No gain, no gain. _
[Bb] _ [Dm] Anything worth having at all [Cm] is worth working for
and [Eb] waiting for.
Some of [Bb] my closest friends have thought
they [Dm] had that thing on the string
[Cm] just because that man was bringing them flowers
and candy and [Bb] all kinds of gifts.
[Dm] Mm-mm, honey, some [Cm] gifts are just to make him feel better
[Eb] while he's on his guilt trip [Bb] about the night before.
[Dm] You know what I mean.
[Cm] Especially when you [C] know you haven't been doing
the things you [Bb] should do.
Think about [Dm] it.
What is the man [Cm] trying to tell you?
Sometimes [Eb] flowers mean maybe we [Bb] should just be friends.
Do you get [Dm] my drift?
Hang if you can [Cm] hang.
No pain, [Eb] no gain.
In [Bb] order to get [Dm] something, [C] you gotta give something.
In [G] order to be [Dm] something, you [Cm] gotta go through [C] something.
Be a cook in the kitchen, a lady in the street.
You can't show your tooth to every guy you [Bb] meet.
[Dm] It's all right to be a little sweet
[Cm] or be a mama with the kids and you know what in the [Bb] sheet.
No pain, [Dm] no [Cm] gain.
_ [C] _ _
[Bb] No [Dm] pain, no [Cm] gain.
_ [Eb] _
[Bb] See, you can't give [Dm] up, because times get [Cm] hard.
It's just that old [F] devil trying to keep us apart.
[Bb] Say, devil, [Dm] you ain't got nothing [Cm] here.
I'm holding to my hand.
No [Bb] pain, [Dm] no gain.
[Cm] No pain, no gain.
No gain, no gain.
[Eb] _
[Bb] No pain, [Dm] no pain.
No [Cm] pain, no pain.
No gain, no gain.
[Eb] _
[Bb] No pain, no [Dm] pain.
No pain, [Cm] no pain.
No gain, no gain.
No, no, [Bb] no, no, no.
No [Dm] pain, no pain.
No, no, no, [Cm] no, no.
No gain, no pain. No, no.
[Bb] No pain, [Dm] no pain.
No, no.
[Eb] No pain, _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Dm] no [Cm] pain.
No gain, [C] no pain.
In [Bb] order to get [Dm] something, give [Cm] something,
to be something, you gotta go [Bb] through something.
No [Dm] pain, no [Cm] pain.
No pain, no gain.
Oh, [Bb] no pain, [Dm] no gain.
No pain, no [Cm] gain.
No gain, _ _
[Bb] _ [Dm] no _ [Cm] _ _ [F] _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ [Dm] gain.
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Dm] No pain, no [Cm] gain. _ _ _
[Bb] No [Dm] pain, _ [Cm] no _ [Bb] gain.
No pain, [Dm] no gain.
No pain, no [Cm] gain.
No pain, no gain.
No pain, no [Bb] gain.
No pain, no gain.
[Dm] No pain, no gain.
No pain, [Cm] no gain.
No pain, no gain.
No pain, [Eb] no gain.
No pain, no [Bb] gain.
No pain, no [Dm] gain.
No pain, no gain.
No pain, [Cm] no gain.
Hear me when I [Bb] say, no pain, no [Dm] gain.
No pain, no [Cm] gain.
No pain, _ [C] _ _