How Can I Get It? chords by Frankie Jaxon

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Verse 1
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 (G major)  (D major)  (G major)  (E major) Ain't  (A major) got
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nobody  (D major) got to  (G major) live,
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 (E major) don't want nobody  (A major) that I've  (D major) got to  (G major) give,
let me tell you something.
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Now listen honey  (E major) here,
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 (A major) I want you to know,
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 (D major) that I've got to have  (G major) lots of dogs.
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You  (B major) fool around almost  (G major) every night.
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 (A major) First you want a ronger,
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then you want  (A minor) a spank.
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 (D major) Oh,  (G major) I'm getting  (E major) sick and tired
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 (A major) of that kind of stuff.
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You know  (G major) good and well it does not pay.  (C major) 
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 (E major) Why,  (A major) I'm gonna have just
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 (D major) what I  (B major) want.
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Now listen,  (E major)  (A major) honey, while I  (D major) say.
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Oh,  (G major) how can I get it?
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How can I  (E major) get it?
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 (A major) You keep on  (D major) snatchin' it  (G major) back.
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 (D major) Oh,  (G major) do you know I want it?
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Do I gotta  (E major) have it?
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 (A major) You keep on holdin' the sack (D major) .
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Why,  (G major) money's the rule  (D major) of evil,
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 (E major) so  (C major) they say.
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 (E major) I'll do an evil for money  (A major) most any  (D major) day.
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But  (G major) how can I get it, how can  (E major) I  get it,
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when  (A major) you keep  (D major) on hatchin' it back?
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 (G major)  (E major) I mean,
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you  (A major) keep  (D major) on hatchin' it back.
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 (G major) Now listen  (D major) here,
I want to ask you something.
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 (G major) You know, you promised to take
me out now.
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And here we are ten miles from  (E major) town,
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in  (A major) this taxi cab.
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And you told  (D major) me you were going
put two dollars in my stocking.
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 (G major) The  (D major) last man that put two
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 (G major) dollars in my stock (D major) ing
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and I was in a  (G major) taxi cab,
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 (E major) I went to sleep.
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And when I  (A major) woke up and got home,
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taxicab,  (D major) stocking, 2, man,
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and everybody was  (G major) gone.
You'll never drop that
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 (C major) chug on me. -mm!
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Is there got a  (E major) fella here?
Well, he's out of town.
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 (A major) What am I  (D major) doing
while he's out of town?
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What  (G major) do you think  (D major) old lady Rip
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 (G major) Van Winkle was  (E major) doing
while Rip was sleeping?
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 (A major) I guess you thought  (D major) that she was running up and down the streets,
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 (G major) running  the cabaret
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 (E major) or something like that.
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Honey, you'll nev (A major) er drop
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that chug on  (D major) me.
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All I want you to  (G major) do
is to put it where I can get it.
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Listen,  (D major)  (G major) how can I get it?
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How can I  (E major) get it?
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You  (A major) keep on  (D major) snatchin' it back (G major) .
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Lord,  (D major) you know  (G major) I  want it.
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 (D major) You  (G major) know I  (E major) want it.
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You  (A major) keep on a -holdin' us back (D major) .
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Why,  (G major) a -backin' the  (D major) ferry,  (G major) speed is it due.
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God don't have  (E major) money
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 (G major) for  (C major) my per (A major) sonal  (G major) use.
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But how can I  (D major) get it,
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 (G major) how can  (D major) I   (E major) get it?
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You  (A major) keep on adding  (D major) it,
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pulling  (E major) it back,
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And you  (A major) keep on adding  (D major) it back (G major) .