Talking Houseboat
Talking Houseboat

Talking Houseboat easy guitar chords by Oscar Brand

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  • G

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    • Verse 1
    Now 
    just supposing 

    you got 
    cash to 
    spare 

    and you 
    love 
    to live, 

    but you don't know 
    where. 

    You 
    want a 
    house, but 
    you 
    like to 
    roam, 

    so you 
    look around 
    for 
    a 
    seafaring 
    home, 

    with 
    none of that dull 
    permanence 

    that men 
    ab
    hor. 

    And lady, 
    if your husband's 
    alcoholic, 


    this'll put 
    him on the water 
    for good. 

    Now 
    houseboats 
    come in 

    a 
    lot of 
    forms, 

    there's a 
    tiny kind 
    that 

    can weather storms, 

    there's 
    a 
    monstrous 
    kind 

    with 
    its own front 
    yard 

    that'll 
    heel right 
    over if 

    you breathe 
    too hard. 

    You 
    can only 
    take her out 

    if the water's 
    like glass 

    And 
    even 
    then you gotta 

    watch out 
    for cracks 

    But you 
    sign the 
    paper and 

    you board the 
    boat 

    And pre
    pare for 
    livin' like 

    a king 
    afloat 

    When you 
    suddenly 

    find you're 
    up the 
    creek 

    Cause 
    a doggone 
    cellar's 
    gone 

    and sprung 
    a leak 

    An
    d 
    brother, when 
    your cellar 

    gets flooded 

    on a houseboat 

    You 
    get a 
    sinkin' 
    feeling in 

    the livin' 
    room 

    Of course, 
    if that were all, 

    it wouldn't 
    be 
    so 
    bad 

    But your 
    heir to 
    trouble's 

    job never 
    had 

    There's 
    gnats, 
    mosquitoes, 

    bugs galore, 

    mildew 
    rot, 

    and a warping 
    floor, 

    and your clothes 
    will start 

    sprouting 
    penicil
    lin. 

    And 
    the planking 
    collapses 

    when 
    your kid 
    pokes at 
    it with a 

    lol
    lipop 
    stick. 

    And that 
    mon
    ster 
    engine don't 
    help a 
    lot, 

    cause it 
    roars and 
    sparks, 

    but it makes one 
    knot. 

    You're not going 
    elsewhere 

    to 
    enjoy 
    the view, 

    lest 
    the tide 
    and the 
    wind 

    are 
    going that way, 
    too. 

    Of course, maybe 
    you can hire 
    someone 

    to 
    tow you 
    at a nominal 
    fee, 

    but 
    a nominal 
    leg 
    is more 
    like it. 

    So 
    you'd 
    better swallow 

    your 
    pil
    grim's 
    pride 

    by 
    an empty 
    lot by 
    the waterside. 

    Get 
    a 
    trucker, 
    Derek, 

    and 
    take her in tow. 

    Drag her 
    up on shore, 

    far 
    as she can 
    go. 

    Cause it 
    takes a heap 
    of livin' 

    to make 
    a boat a home. 

    But 
    like 
    the tow 
    boatman 
    said, 

    say 
    that sure 
    is a 
    heap of ship. 


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