Talking Houseboat chords by
Oscar Brand

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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Now just supposing

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you got cash to spare

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and you love to live,

but you don't know where.

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You want a house, but you like to roam,

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so you look around for a seafaring home,

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with none of that dull permanence

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that men ab hor.

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And lady, if your husband's alcoholic,

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this'll put him on the water for good.

Now houseboats come in

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a lot of forms,

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there's a tiny kind that

can weather storms,

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there's a monstrous kind

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with its own front yard

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that'll heel right over if

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you breathe too hard.

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You can only take her out

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if the water's like glass

And even then you gotta

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watch out for cracks

But you sign the paper and

you board the boat

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And prepare for livin' like

a king afloat

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When you suddenly

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find you're up the creek

Cause a doggone cellar's gone

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and sprung a leak

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And brother, when your cellar

gets flooded

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on a houseboat

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You get a sinkin' feeling in

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the livin' room

Of course, if that were all,

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it wouldn't be so bad

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But your heir to trouble's

job never had

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There's gnats, mosquitoes,

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bugs galore,

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mildew rot,

and a warping floor,

and your clothes will start

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sprouting penicillin.

And the planking collapses

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when your kid pokes at it with a

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lollipop stick.

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And that monster engine don't help a lot,

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cause it roars and sparks,

but it makes one knot.

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You're not going elsewhere

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to enjoy the view,

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lest the tide and the wind

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are going that way, too.

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Of course, maybe you can hire someone

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to tow you at a nominal fee,

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but a nominal leg is more like it.

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So you'd better swallow

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your pilgrim's pride

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by an empty lot by the waterside.

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Get a trucker, Derek,

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and take her in tow.

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Drag her up on shore,

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far as she can go.

Cause it takes a heap of livin'

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to make a boat a home.

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But like the tow boatman said,

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say that sure is a heap of ship.

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