How to Play "That's What Keeps The Rent Down, Baby" Guitar chords
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[Intro]
D A D
[Verse 1]
D Bm G
Hush little baby don't you cry
D A
Please don't mind the screaming
D Bm G
From the man in the alley on the small of his back
D A
The police man's knee is kneelin'
D Bm G
I'll tell you an open secret, child
D A
Not everyone is knowin'
D Bm G
But if that little man ever left this place
D A
You and I would soon be goin'
[Chorus]
D Bm G
'Cause that's what keeps the rent down, baby
D A D
That's what keeps the rent down low
Bm G
That's what keeps the rent down baby
D A D
That's what keeps the rent down low
[Verse 2]
D Bm G
Your mama ain't rich, she's a music man
D A
Your daddy he's a painter
D Bm G
We took over the lease on this old house
D A
From men whose hearts were fainter
D Bm
'Cause we don't mind the painted ladies
G D A
With their weeping souls all swollen
D Bm G
And we don't mind that everyone we know
D A
Has had their stereo stolen
[Chorus]
D Bm G
'Cause that's what keeps the rent down, baby
D A D
That's what keeps the rent down low
Bm G
That's what keeps the rent down baby
D A D
That's what keeps the rent down low
[Guitar Solo]
D Bm D Bm D
A D A D
[Verse 3]
D Bm G
One fine morning you wake up to
D A
Bulldozers and renovation
D Bm
'Cause folks like your mom and dad
G D A
Are just shock troops of gentrification
D Bm
For the single young professionals
D A
Who find the neighborhood hip and charming
D Bm G
But if they heard about the lady who got chopped up in the alley
D N.C.
They'd probably find it alarming
[Chorus]
D Bm G
And that's what keeps the rent down, baby
D A D
That's what keeps the rent down low
Bm G
That's what keeps the rent down baby
D A D
That's what keeps the rent down low