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Transcribed by: asf0@comcast.net  Alice Franceschini
Date:  August 21, 1997
Subject: She's All I Got  by Johnny Paycheck
Album: She's all I got
Written by: J. Williams, Jr./G. Bonds
Record is in Bb

          SHE'S ALL I GOT          Johnny Paycheck

Intro chords  C D D# E F  sounds best if in barre chords.

A form of a barre chord on the lst fret
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C is on the 3rd fret  D on the 5th fret  D# 6th fret  E 7th fret 
F is on 8th fret

CHORUS:

1.) Well, I said
2.) Let me tell you now
3.) Let me tell you now

  Bb                          Cm  
Friend don't take her, she's all I got  
F                                    Bb
Please don't take her love away from me
                  Bb                          Cm
I'm begging you friend, don't take her, she's all I got 
           F                         Bb
She's everything in life I'll ever need


            Cm    F             Bb
1.) She is life when I want to live  
        Cm   Dm     Eb      F        Bb
She's everything to me in life that life can give  
          Cm    F             Bb
She's my water when I need a drink 
           Cm           Dm     Eb        F             Bb
She's the first thought in my mind each time I try to think 

go to chorus

             Cm      F               Bb
2.)She's my fingers when I want to  feel 
           Cm   Dm       Eb     F           Bb             
She's the only thing in life to me that's really real
        Cm   F                    Bb
She is love she's all the love I know  
           Cm       Dm             Eb        n.c.               Bb   
She could kiss the ground in the winter time and make a flower grow

go to chorus then ending.
ENDING:
         Bb                         Cm
I said friend don't take her, she's all I got 
 F                  Bb                         Cm
I'm a begging you friend don't take her she's all I got
F                  Bb                        Cm
Everything to me friend don't take her she's all I got
F                   Bb                        Cm
Now we're talking friend don't take her she's all I got