Ballad Of A Landlord Chords by Terry Hall

_ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ On the day you arrived, the [Dm] bedroom _ curtains were drawn, _
All [G] was still, the way you left it, _
[C] Same number _ on the door.
_ [Am] _ Easy come, easy go, [Dm] What a way to treat your soul,
Though I [G] confess, _ once hearts rested, _ [C] Now there's nothing _ [Am] but a hole. _
_ _ So the prodigal returns, I guess [Dm] the _ pleasure's not enough,
Did [G] he promise you the earth, A world of [C] beauty _ _ and of love?
I [Am] tried to tell the garden, _ Until [Dm] the flowers fell to weed,
So now [G] the place lies in ruin, The way you [C] lied and ruined me.
_ [G] _
_ [Am] Do I have the answer? _
If I [Dm] did, I would've known, _ _
[G] So take it if you want to, If you [C] don't, then let me _ go.
_ _ Fake leopard [Am] skin fur says it all, [Dm] _ You never could be real,
How [G] I long to taste the secrets, From your [C] land of phony tears.
You [Am] tried to be a mover, _ But [D] there was [Dm] no one on your side, _
[G] Did you come back here to haunt me, Or to [C] take me for a ride? _
[Am] Do I have the answer?
If I [Dm] did, I would've known, _
[G] So take it if you want to, If you [C] don't, then let me go.
But if [F] you don't, _ _ _ _ just [E] let me know, _ _ _ If you [F] don't, if you don't, if you don't. _
_ [A] Take yourself away, [E] I've been hurt once before,
[A] Can't have you hurting me [E] _ anymore.
_ [Am] Do I have the answer?
If [Dm] I did, I would've known,
So [G] take it if you want to, If you [C] don't, then let me go. _
_ [Am] Don't make me the one, Who makes you [D] feel [Dm] like you should go. _
[G] Just take it if you want to, If you [C] don't, then let it go.
If [F] you don't, _ _ _ just [G] let me know, _ _ I can't [Am] take it anymore. _ _ _ _ _
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