How Come You Are Being So Good To Me?
by:  John Hartford
From: Looks At Life Album
Transcribed from 40 sec soundbyte
by:  Verne Garrison July 1, 2010
Banjo tuned E, Capo 3, Key of E


   E                                   
You scratch my back and wash my socks,
    A                                       
You answer the door when the preacher knocks
E
You scrub the floor and fill my belly with peanut butter and
             A 
      Apple jelly
                                  E  
You change the kids at half past three
                          B       E
How come you're being so good to me?

   E                               
How come you come each time I call
  A                           
When I get hung up in the hall?
 E                             
How come you come each time I yell
                     A
Down inside my lazy spell?
                              E
How come you come each time I scream?
                          B       E
How come you are being so good to me?



Every time the roof caves in

Like a toothpaste ad you sit and grin 

And if you're mad it sure don't show

When I announce I gotta go

You fill my pipe before I leave

How come you are being so good to me?

How come you come each time I groan? 

And carry me home when I get stoned?

How come you move when I say go?

How come you hop when I say toad?

How come you cook when I say eat?

How come you a being so good to me?



You cut the wood and slop the hogs

And dig post holes and feed the dogs

Patch up holes in your cotton sack

Drive the truck to town and back

While I decorate your window with my be rusty feet

How come you a being so good to me?

How come you come each time I call

When I get hung up in the hall?

How come you come each time I yell

From down inside my lazy spell?

How come you come each time I scream?

How come you a being so good to me?