What You Gonna Do, Leroy? chords by Burl Ives

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Verse 1
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What you gonna do, Lee Roy?
What you gonna do, Lee Roy?
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Well, that woman done told
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me a bare -faced lie
I keep asking myself, man,
why, why, why?
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Well, I work real hard
and take my money home
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I wake up in the morning,
find my billfold gone
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She broke me daddy, yes, she got me flat
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But what you gonna do
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when you love a woman like that?
What you gonna do, Leroy?
What you gonna do, Leroy?
Well, she told me
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she was going to the grocery store
We got grits in the cupboard,
don't need no more
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Yeah, she got dialed up
and put her perfume on
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It's three in the morning
and that woman ain't home
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I know she's a totem at her grocery sack
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So what you gonna do
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when you love a woman like that?
She said I'm going to the country
Spend a week with my mammy
But I believe to my soul
She'd give me a double whammy
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I called her mama, said Luella been there
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She said no Leroy,
ain't seen her nowhere
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I ought to leave her
cause I got all the facts
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But what you gonna do
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when you love a woman like that
What you gonna do, Leroy?
Leroy, don't know.
What you gonna do, Leroy?
It leads me, Lieutenant.