"First Your Money (Then Your Clothes)" by Jude Cole
Written by Jude Cole and George Green
From the album "Start The Car"
Reprise Records, 1991
Updated 6/8/99

G    C    G    (x2)

G
I left home on a southbound train
G
One September, in the pouring rain
C                                      G
Midnight flyer, and a girl named Lori Rose
G
Mama said, "Son, it won't last
G
She'll be gone when you're out of cash
C                              G
Hey momma, I need a ride back home
D
All your life you run to love,
     Em                        C
You give your heart then it's not enough
     G          C                   G
But hey baby,    that's the way it goes

G    C    G

So Romeo in a GTO  met Juliet at the drive-in show
Midnight dreamin' down the Texas coast
We stopped to wish upon a star
She stole my breath, she stole my car
But hey baby, that's just the way it goes
Every time that your heart breaks,
You swear you won't make the same mistakes
But hey baby,      that's the way it goes
G            Em    C             G
First your money,    then your clothes

G

Em                                  D
Oh no, love ain't cheap, there's a toll booth up on Lover's Leap
 C                             D                     C
Sweet romance, take a chance, come and dance with me

I'm riding out on a southbound train, just a Romeo in the pourin' rain
     Em      C                   G
But hey baby, that's the way it goes
             Em     C             G
First your money,     then your clothes

LONG STRUM ON G

 C                    G
Slow down, slow down now
G
Hey mama, slow down, when you roll down
G C            G
I'm just low down now

REPEAT AND FADE

Kevin Ross