Status Quo, Break The Rules (1974)
Key: :[A#] (w: Francis Rossi, Bob Young, Alan Lancaster, Rick Parfitt, John Coghlan)
VERSE 1:
Spent a
[A#] long long evening in a low down honky-tonk bar
Pulled a low down lady with a long black honky-tonk car
I
[D#] asked no questions, got no lies; I walked off with her;
I
[Db] didn't want any
[A#] ties
And
[Db] I knew it wasn't
[A#] right,
But
[F] everybody has to
[G#] some-
[F]-times
[D#] Break
[Db] the
[A#] rules.
[A# open] [F 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.
INSTRUMENTAL:
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
