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