Sweetheart Of The Town Chords
Sweetheart Of The Town by Stonewall Jackson is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, B and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: E B E
#1.
E A
Your secret love is known to everybody
E
in this town.
E
No need to try, you can't deny, the talk
B
that's going round.
E A
You meet in secret places when you think
E
no one's around.
B
People's calling you the sweetheart of
E B E
the town (of the town.)
B E
Would you rather have the name sweetheart,
instead of wife?
B E
Oh, why not be content to trade the wrong
way for the right.
E A
The kind of life you're living now I just
E
can't stay around.
B A
While they're calling you the sweetheart
E B E
of the town (of the town.)
#2.
E A
Infatuation's not the kind of love that we
E
once knew.
E
But that's the kind you hold for him, the kind
B
he's givin' you.
E A
I'm like a puppet on a string that you can
E
pull around.
E B A
While they're calling you the sweetheart of
E B E
the town (of the town.)
B E
Would you rather have the name sweetheart,
instead of wife?
B E
Oh, why not be content to trade the wrong
way for the right.
E A
The kind of life you're living now I just
E
can't stay around.
B A
While they're calling you the sweetheart
E B E
of the town (of the town.)
OUTRO:
E B A
While they're calling you the sweetheart of
E
the town.