Loves The Only House chords by Martina McBride

• Capo on 2nd

Love's the Only House - Martina McBride - Key = G, capoed on 2 = Key of A

Intro:  G - C - D* 2X (Harmonica on 2nd round) (D* means variations with sus2 and sus4)

G: I was standing in the C: grocery store line, the D*: one marked "Express", when this G:
woman came through with about C: 25 things.  And I said, D*: "Don't you know that more is
less'"

She said this G: world is moving so C: fast, I just D*: get more behind every day
G: And every morning when I C: make my coffee, I can't be- D*: lieve my life has turned
out this way.  All I can say is -

Chorus:     G: Love's the only house C: big enough for all the D*: pain in the world
G: Love's the only house C: big enough for all the D*: pain

G: He was walking by the C: other day and I said, D*: "Hey, baby, how yah been'"
G: Yeah! I got a little girl C: now and she's four years old and D*: she's got her daddy's little
grin
G: You only wanted what C: you can't have, and baby D*: you can't have me now
I gave my heart to G: another yeah, I'm a C: mother and he's a father and we're a D*: family
and we got each other and I found out the hard way that -

CHORUS (lead harmony), then 4 measure instrumental with harmonica

G: You drive 3 miles from all this C: prosperity, down across the D*: river and you see a
ghetto there.
G/Bm**: We got children walking around with C: guns and they got knives and D*: drugs
and pain to spare.
G: And here I am in my clean C: white shirt with a little money in my D*: pocket and a nice
warm home.
G/Bm: We got teenagers C: walking around in a culture of darkness D*: living together
alone.

CHORUS (lead harmony)

Refrain:    Em: And no, I can't explain it, A: and I can't understand it, C: but I'll come and
get my hands dirty and D: together we'll make a stand.

Mostly Bass   G: Someone across the parking lot, C: some band's playing out a tune.
D: City streets are gonna burn if we don't do somethin' soon
G: Senorita can't quit crying, C: baby's die now any day. D: Don Juan left, got
sick of trying. No one there to show him the way.

G: She came down to the C: grocery store, she D: said, "I, I wanna buy a little carton of milk,
but I don't have any money." G/Bm: I said C: hey, "I'll cover you honey." D:
D: Cause the pain got to go somewhere (G/Bm: I don't have any money, I don't have any C:
money) D:
Yeah, the pain's gotta go someplace, so come on down to my house. G/Bm - C - D:  Don't you
know that -

CHORUS  2X 1st is lead harmony, 2nd is background harmony with lead vocal:
Don't you know that love's the only house;  Yeah eah eah eah eah eah eah eah, Yeah eah eah.:

Outro:  G -C - D      G - C - D    G - C - D    G
*G/Bm = Bass plays B (Bm implied) over "G" chord or Bm may be played on guitar.