My Own Best Friend chords by
John Prine

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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I'm beginning to like you

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But, you know that ain't right

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'Cause you'll just twist

and twist and twist

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Till I'm all crooked inside

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You'll take all you gave

Verse 2

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Like it never was there

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And I think that I might, no, I know

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Yes, I will help you there

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'Cause, I've done it be

Verse 3

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fore

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and I'd do it again

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'Cause it's the only time

That makes me feel like I'm

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My own best friend

Verse 4

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I'm a victim of friction,

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I got too close to see

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Yeah, we sparked in the dark and God

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hung a light on me

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The lamp gets real heavy,

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it hangs from my heart

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And it comes and it goes till I can't

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tell the difference apart

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But I've done it before

Verse 5

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and I'd do it again

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'Cause it's the only time

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My own best friend

Verse 6

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So many people say,

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it will never work out that way

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You can't stand the heat

While you're watching your heart

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Just melt away in the basement

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on a rainy day

Interlude 1

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Verse 7

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There's motel in Shreveport

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Don't ask me where, please

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They check in , they check out

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By the light of the color T.V.s

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The maid calls you honey

Verse 8

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She makes your bed slow

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And she speaks,

of the sheets that don't fit

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But you know that she knows

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I've done it be

Verse 9

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fore and

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I'd do it again

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'Cause it's the only time

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My own best friend, my own best friend

My own best friend,

Outro 1

my own best friend

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