Buying A Book chords by
Joe Tex

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Key: B major

Verse 1
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I saw this old man with this young
girl the other night
D D 
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I walked over to him and pulled
him off on the side
And I said, pops,
what are you trying to prove?
G G 
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I  said, I've seen you out here
every night this week
With a different young girl wrapped
around your arm
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I said, you can't keep this pace up,
uh
Because these young girls
Huh, oh
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They'll certainly get you down

Verse 2
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He said, son, sit down here
Lemme tell ya something
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He said, all my life I've worked hard,
huh
And I've saved up
me a little money
He said, but just about the time
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I got me a nest egg saved
I became a widow man
He says, and I'm 72 going on
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73 years old
And don't have too many
more years to live
Hah, he said,
I know that I should be ashamed of myself
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Ha, but he said
Young girls is my weakness
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Oh yes, they are, huh
He said, so would you please
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Leave this old gray- haired man alone
Mind your business
Heh heh
Let me and this young girl
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Have us a little bit of fun, huh

Verse 3
That's when I looked at him and I said
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I said, all right, pops, you got her
But listen, ha ha ha ha,
here's all you're doing
Oh yes, oh yes, oh, you just
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D D 
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Buying buyin' a book
That's what I said to him
I said, listen to this,
here's all you're doing
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D D 
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(Buying a book for some young
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man)
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G G 
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That's what you're do ing, heh
To read
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But don't do it
(Don't do it)
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Don't do it
(Don't do it)
Oh, don't do it!
D D 
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(Don't do it!)
Send that young girl on home
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Mmm mmm mmm

Verse 4
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Then there was this middle- aged
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woman whose name I dare not call
Simply because you out there listening
Just might know who this woman is
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But I can tell you this much
The woman lives right here in your town
I know you didn't know
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that, did you, huh
I saw this woman with this young man
In the broaden day time the other day
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I say, miss lady,
you oughta be ashamed of yourself
Ridin' around with this young man
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all hugged up like this here, heh huh

Verse 5
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She said, son, oh son,
you're dippin' in my business
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But if you want to know why I
fool with this young man
I'll tell you
She said, I was married to a man
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40 years older than I was
Says, for a long time I was
true and faithful to that one man
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Says, and last year he died and willed me
a whole lotta money
And I know that that young man
sittin' in my car
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Just wants me for my money, uh huh
She said, but if that's what it takes
to keep the young, fine thing
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Oh ho, he can get every single dime
Because it ain't nothin'
an old man can do for me
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But show me which way a young man went,
hah hah

Verse 6
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Oh Lord, oh, oh
Here's what I said, huh
I said, you're just
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Buying
That's all you're doin'
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(Buying a book)
That's what I told her, huh
Listen, miss lady, here's all you're doin',
uh
G G 
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(Buying a book for some
young girl)
You oughta quit it, huh
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To read
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(Don't do it)
I said, that's your car, drive
him home
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Give him all your money!
I'm sorry I dipped
in your business
I won't do it no more
No

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