Don't Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There chords by Hazel Dickens

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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D 
You pull the string
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She's your plaything
D 
You can make her or break her, it's true
C 
You ab use her, accuse her
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Turn her round and use her
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Then forsake her any time it suits you

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Verse 2

There's more to her than

powder and paint

Than her peroxided bleached- out hair

And if she acts that way

It's 'cause you've had

your day

Don't put her down,

you helped put her there

Interlude 1

Verse 3
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D 
She hangs around
C 
G 
Playing her clown
D 
While her soul is aching in side
C 
She's heartbreak's child
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She just lives for your smile
D 
To build her up in a world
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made by man

Verse 4
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There's more to her than
C 
G 
powder and paint
C 
G 
D 
Than her peroxided bleached- out hair
C 
And if she acts that way
G 
It's 'cause you've had
your day
Don't put her down,
D 
G 
you helped put her there

Interlude 2

Verse 5
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At the house down the way
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You sneak and you pay
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For her love, her body or her shame
C 
Then you call yourself a man
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And say you just don't understand
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How a woman could turn
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out that way
D 
There's more

Verse 6
to her than
C 
G 
powder and paint
C 
G 
D 
The men she picks up at the bar
C 
And if she acts that way
G 
It's 'cause you've had
your day
Don't put her down,
D 
G 
you helped put her there