How'd You Get This Number?
written by: Guy Clark
Artist: Guy Clark
CD: Boats to Build
From: Andrew@lyonap.force9.co.uk

Capo 2

Intro: A (see tab below song)

A
Sorry 'bout your mama, sorry 'bout your pa
A
Sorry about the business with your brother-in-law
A
Hard cheese about the money man, hard cheese about the stocks
A
Hard cheese about you being up to your ears in hock
A
Tough luck about your luggage, tough luck about your socks
A
Tough luck about the way that the other shoe drops
D
Too bad about your girlfriend, too bad about your wife
A
Too bad about the thing you call the rest of your life

     D
Hey, how'd you get this number man - who do you think you're talking to?

A
Now who do you think you are kidding, what do you want me to do?
D
How'd you get this number man, please don't make me laugh
             E
You know you ought to be on TV with a line like that

A
I heard about the car rent, I heard about the fail
A
I heard about the time you was in jail all night
A
I know you don't like trouble and I know you don't like to fight
A
I know that you could argue with a fence post all night
A
I heard about the lampshade, how you had it on your head
A
I heard you told a joke and knocked the whole room dead
D
No kidding about the car sir, no kidding about the junk
A
No kidding about you being in a deep blue funk

     D
Hey, how'd you get this number man - who do you think you're talking to?

A
Now who do you think you are kidding, what do you want me to do?
D
How'd you get this number, please don't make me laugh
    E
You ought to be on TV with a line like that

solo over D  A  D  A  D  A

solo


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