Recipe for a heartache chords by Hank Thompson
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What do you say, let's just kind of keep the
spirit up with a little novelty tune called
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Recipe for a
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Heartache.
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You take a little cheatin' here and a little cheatin' there,
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stay out late with a new day.
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Have a little cheer with another round of beer,
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that's the recipe for a heartache.
Well, you tell the little gal you're with an old pal
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who's celebrating his new namesake
It's not a new birth,
but a gal that's worth another chance on the heartache
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Well, an old girlfriend happens in
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your office without a warning
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The good times start with an old sweetheart
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and you don't get home till morning
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You can't deny your wife's reply,
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your lipstick isn't all straight
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You're gonna hear a holler about the red on your collar,
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that's the recipe for a heartache.
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Well you take a slow train
and not a jet plane
Because you want to go
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on a full moon
There's a gal you gotta see
in a part with me
And you really think that you
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have pulled a good one
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Comin' home from a trip,
your wife is her lips
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Awaitin' at the door all puckered
You got a real recipe for a heartache to be
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If you call him fed all tuckered
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If your wife is weary when you say deary
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I gotta make a fast connection
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Assure your pet that it's a jet
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With turbine fuel injection
You took
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Lorraine down the country lane
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Your wife caught you in the cane break
You couldn't explain about raisin' cane
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And that's the recipe for a heartache
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So live it up, don't give it up
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If misery's your favorite cup
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Then lead this life, lose your wife
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That's the recipe for a heartache
Well, there it is, friends.
Thank you very much.
Recipe for a heartache
Hank thompson
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