?All-Time Woman? is from ?Cannons in the Rain?, RCA, 1973,re-released by Bear Family Records together with ?Wingless Angels?
(originally RCA, 1975) in 1990.


John plays this one in C. G suits my voice better.
So: capo 5th

All-Time Woman     John Stewart

(G) (D) (Em) (G7) (C) (D) (G) (D)
(G)Mother Out(D)law?s been (Em)giving me (G7)jaw,
Saying (C)"Why don?t you (D)marry the (G)girl?(D)
(G)I know (D)you?ve been (Em)living in (G7)sin,
Got your (C)backside (D)out to the (G)world."(G7)

But an (C)all-(D)time (G)woman,(Em)
Ah, you (C)don?t need a (Bm)preacher to (A)know(D)
That an (C)all-(D)time (G)woman(Em)
Keeps you (A)ready for the (C)rock?n (G)roll,(G/F#)(Em)(hold)
Oh, (C)ready for the (D)rock?n (C)roll.

Now a (G)one-night (D)stand for a (Em)guitar (G7)man
Is (C)easy when the (D)road gets (G)boring,(D)
But (G)Holiday (D)Inns and the (Em)two-dollar (G7)gin
Can (C)sure look (D)bad in the (G)morning.(G7)

Oh, an (C)all-(D)time (G)woman(Em)
Is the (C)best damn (Bm)friend I (A)know,(D)
Oh, an (C)all-(D)time (G)woman(Em)
keeps you (A)for the (C)rock?n (G)roll,(G/F#)(Em)(hold)
Oh, (C)ready for the (D)rock?n (C)roll.

(G)Miss A(D)merica, I (Em)got your (G7)game,
It?s a (C)Christian (D)burlesque (G)show,(D)
(G)Feeding their (D)eyes on your (Em)sweet young (G7)thighs
Pre(C)tending, yeah, that (D)you don?t (G)know.(G7)

But an (C)all-(D)time (G)woman,(Em)
Oh, she (C)ain?t selling (Bm)nothing but (A)soul,(D)
Oh, an (C)all-(D)time (G)woman(Em)
Keeps you (A)ready for the (C)rock?n (G)roll,(G/F#)(Em)(hold)
Oh, (C)ready for the (D)rock?n (C)roll. -Instr. verse-

Yeah, an (C)all-(D)time (G)woman(Em)
With her (C)good love (Bm)feeding your (A)soul,(D)
Oh, an (C)all-(D)time (G)woman(Em)
Keeps you (A)ready for the (C)rock?n (G)roll,(G/F#)(Em)
Keeps you (C)ready for the (D)rock?n (G)roll.

Oh, an (C)all-(D)time (G)woman(Em)
With her (C)good love (Bm)feeding your (A)soul,(D)
Oh, an (C)all-(D)time (G)woman(Em)
Keeps you (A)ready for the (C)rock?n (G)roll,(G/F#)(Em)(hold)
Oh, (C)ready for the (D)rock?n (C)roll.(G)

copyright John Stewart

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