| C | G | Am | |
| Been in pai | n and I've been in | shame |
| Dm | |
| But ain't lov | e a bitch |
| I been in fights, locked away for nights |
| But ain't love a bitch |
| I been tailed, impaled, strung up |
| and nailed and left without a stitch |
| I been scratched 'n' taxed 'n' finally axed |
| But ain't love a bitch |
| Dm | C | |
| Oh I didn't understand till I was seventeen |
| Dm | C | |
| She took me way upstairs and she wiped me clean |
| Am | Fmaj7 | |
| Oh I didn't realize she made a first class | fool out of me |
| Dm | G | |
| O | h Maggie if you're still out there the rest is histo | ry |