When God Fearin Women Get The Blues Chords

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When God Fearin Women Get The Blues by Martina McBride is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, G, C and Bm. 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
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Prelude 
    N.C. 
  “She was the prom queen he was a quarter back of the football team 
N.C. 
and it all looked so promising,  we never thought anything 'ud happen like this 
N.C. 
and then, all of a sudden, twenty five years of love and devotion, down the drain.” 

Intro 
  D                                               A 
Hummm we all heard her hollering,  for a country mile, 
          D                              G 
Cheatin' sure shows a complete lack of style, 
            D                                                 A 
Well she,  took out three parking meters,  and a pedestrians purse, 
     C                                             G           D 
The day she quit the Baptist choir and threw that Ford into reverse. 

verse 1 
 D 
Lock up your Husbands,  lock up your Sons, 
 D 
Lock up your whiskey cabinets,  and girls lock up your guns, 
 D 
Lock up the beauty shop there's no tellin' if they've heard the news, 
          D  N.C.            D  N.C.                D  N.C.                   D 
Call the boy's downtown and Neiman Marcus tell 'em lock up them high heeled shoes, 


     Bm           G              D 
When God fearin' women get the blues, 
            G                                         A 
There ain't no slap dabb a tellin' what they're gonna do,      Run around yellin', 
D               G             A                 D 
I got a Mustang it'll do 80,  you don't have to be my Baby, 
D                 G                A                                                    D 
I stirrd my last batch of crazy,  you don't have to be my . . . . . . . . . .  Bay hay bee. 

verse 2 
 D 
Call all the Deacons,  call the Ladies aid, 
 D 
Call all the altos sopranos tenors call every bass, 
 D 
Well, call all the Pentecostals, and bring that anointing oil too, 
       D   N.C.                   D   N.C.                       D   N.C.          D 
Well, call the Preacher he's the only could reach her and there ain't no time to lose. 
 
     Bm           G              D 
When God fearin' women get the blues, 
            G                                         A 
There ain't no slap dabb a tellin' what they're gonna do,      Run around yellin', 
D               G             A                 D 
I got a Mustang it'll do 80,  you don't have to be my Baby, 
D                G                A                                                    D 
I stood my last batch of crazy,  you don't have to be my . . . . . . . . . .  Bay hay bee. 

Interlude 
D           G           A           A           D           G           A           A 
Bm  N.C.                             Bm  N.C. 
     She's on all our prayer lists,      She's on all our hearts, 
G   N.C.                          A  N.C. 
     As for the Easter Cantata,      We don't know who'll sing her part. 
D           D            D           D      
                                        'Let's go girl'. 

     Bm           G              D 
When God fearin' women get the blues, 
            G                                         A 
There ain't no slap dabb a tellin' what they're gonna do,      Run around yellin', 
D               G             A                 D 
I got a Mustang it'll do 80,  you don't have to be my Baby, 
D                G                A                                                    D 
I stood my last batch of crazy,  you don't have to be my . . . . . . . . . .  Bay hay bee. 

Outro 
D 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante