If you ain’t loving    (video)    (intro)

 

    D - G

 

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1. If you got a Cadillac, boy, and a forty room shack, boy,

                               D                                   G

    a bucket full of money and a tree full of honey,

                                         C                                     G

    but if you're gettin' no huggin' no smoochin' or muggin',

                              D                            G

    well, if you ain't lovin' then you ain't livin'.

 

                                     D                                                G

2. If you're ridin' on a gravy train 'stead of walkin' down lovers lane,

                              D                                                  G

    you can't make hay, boy, you're goin' the wrong way, boy,

                                      C                                G

    you gotta get a little honey it's better than money,

                              D                              G        + C - G - D - G

    well, if you ain't lovin' then you ain't livin'.

 

                                    D                                               G

3. If they called you a big man 'cause you got a lotta "bottom land",

                                    D                                             G

    if you're kin to the president and you help run the government,

                                          C                                             G

    but if you're gettin' no attention, you're better off on a pension,

                              D                             G        + C - G - D - G

    well, if you ain't lovin' then you ain't livin'.

 

                                     D                                                      G

4. If you got a string of long cars and you're smokin' them four-bit cigars,

                                 D                                                G

    well you ain't so well to do, unless you get a little koo-chi-koo,

                                        C                                G

    it takes a little bit of smackin' all your life's a-lackin',

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    well, if you ain't lovin', well, brother, then you ain't livin.

 

    (Faron Young)