Status Quo, Break The Rules (1974)
Key: :[G] (w: Francis Rossi, Bob Young, Alan Lancaster, Rick Parfitt, John Coghlan)

VERSE 1:
Spent a [G] long long evening in a low down honky-tonk bar
Pulled a low down lady with a long black honky-tonk car
I [C] asked no questions, got no lies; I walked off with her;
I [A#] didn't want any [G] ties
And [A#] I knew it wasn't [G] right,
But [D] everybody has to [F] some-[D]-times
[C] Break [A#] the [G] rules. [G open] [D open]

VERSE 2:
Took me down on the highway doin' too many miles an hour
By the way she motor-talked we might have made the Eiffel Tower.
She stopped her motor by her own front door,
I knew she'd done it so many times before
And I was offered the floor.
But everybody has to sometimes break the rules.

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VERSE 3:
I woke up next morning feeling kind of up and down
Cause I did not know if I was in or out of town
Then I saw the face from the night before
Purse was empty and lying there on the floor
But like I told you before
That everybody has to sometimes break the rules

OUTRO:
Spent a low down evening sitting high on a honky-tonk stool
And I spent my money like a low down honky-tonk fool.
But everybody has to sometimes break the rules
But everybody has to sometimes break the rules
But everybody has to sometimes break the rules