Intro
[Em] [G] [D] [Am]
Verse 1
[Em] [G]
Son listen close, oh son lend me your ear
[D] [Am]
I know that you’re strong, you’ve got nothing to fear
[Em] [G]
But just know there are things that’ll tear through your soul
[D] [Am]
That’ll burn you to cinders like cigarette smoke
[Em] [G]
Like liquor and lies and a loose women’s lips
[D] [Am]
Like tearing your own house down on your head
[Em] [G]
Like eating that honey from poisonous comb
Verse 2
[Em] [G]
She’s brazen as brass and as loud as a horn
[D] [Am]
Her mouth is a sepulcher—scoffing and scorn
[Em] [G]
Oh, she looks soft as rain, but she’s sharp as a blade
[D] [Am]
Her bed is a graveyard, with numberless slain
Chorus
[C] [G]
Son, won’t you drink from your own garden’s well?
[Am] [Em]
Why should your streams be all scattered?
[C] [G]
Son, love a woman and you love her well
[Am] [Em]
Let her not be for strangers but for you
[C] [G]
The ways of a man, they can bring him to glory
[Am] [Em]
Or hangdog, they’ll bring him to shame
[C] [G]
So what kind of man will you be in this story?
[Am] [Em]
A beggar, a bore, or a king?
[Am] [Em]
A beggar, a bore, or a king?
[Am] [Em]
A beggar, a bore, or a king?
Outro
[Em] [G] [D] [Am] [Em] [G] [D] [Am]
