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We've talked it to death, cryin' on the telephone.
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Nights when he drinks at home, she has to whisper throught her tears.
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"Johnny," she says, "you'd never do these things to me."
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But I can never make her see he's wasted such precious years.
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Well, "you married the wrong guy" is all I ever say.
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CHORUS:
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He's a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go
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Though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk.
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She loves the jerk.
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He was the guy always out on the make.
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I guess he had what it takes to turn the heads of pretty girls.
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She thought he would change; the worst of us will settle down.
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But he couldn't stay out of town, not even with this precious pearl
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Now she lives with the lies and the bumps and the bruises.
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REPEAT CHORUS
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Well, I hang up the phone and I pretend she's in my arms.
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What I wouldn't give for just one-tenth of what she gives Mister Charming.
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REPEAT CHORUS
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He's a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go.
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Though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk
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She Loves the Jerk
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John Hiatt |