Seven Years With The Wrong Woman Chords

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Seven Years With The Wrong Woman by Eddy Arnold is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, A7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D                    G      D 
Seven years with the wrong woman 
                       A7 
Is more than a man can stand 
  
Seven years with the wrong woman 
                         D 
Will wreck most any good man 
  
                     G     D 
Seven years with the wrong woman 
                     D7          G 
It's the same in the mountain or dale 
                                      D 
She'll stay awake all night trying to start a fight 
     A7                   D 
Then have you thrown into jail 
  
                     G     D 
Seven years with the wrong woman 
                      A7 
Is punishment that is bad 
                       
Seven years with the wrong woman 
                        D 
Will drive most any man mad 
   
                        G     D 
When you've married the wrong woman 
                  D7            G 
There is only one thing you can do 
                        D 
Dig youself a hole then crawl in that hole 
     A7                   D 
Then pull the ground over you 


Instrumental (a full verse played) 
  
                      G           D 
Listen boys if you're thinking of marriage 
                       A7 
Take warning to what I tell 
  
Don't you marry the wrong woman 
                          D 
It's worse than living in jail 
  
                     G     D 
Seven years with the wrong woman 
                       D7        G 
It'll age you and turn your hair gray 
                           D 
They say love is blind but search 'til you find 
  A7                       D 
A face you can stand every day  
    	

Chord diagrams

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