What Else Can She Do
By Kaitlin Butts
Written by Kaitlin Butts
Album: What Else Can She Do? (2022)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
5/8/22


Capo 4

Spoken: "'suse me ma'am, can I get a coffee and some bacon"

G                                                 D 
She left the country with big city dreams running wild in her mind
C                       D                 G
Lookin' for love or adventure or anything else she could find
        C                                             G
But her small town pretty didn't play in the city too well
        D                                                         G      G7
And the life that she thought would be heaven now feels more like hell


Chorus:
        C
There's lots of sad stories, and this here's another
   G
Of big city dreams that got swept down the gutter
       C                                                 D
And he said "If you leave, don't you ever come back, She burned all the bridges she knew
       C                        D                       G 
So she wakes up and puts on her apron, what else can she do


          G                                                                                                        D
She works twelve-hour shifts, pouring coffee for strangers, she walks home at night, well aware of the dangers but too tired to care
    C                                             G                                          D
She dreams of a life free of sadness or strife or what it'd be like to be somebody's wife, a table with no empty chairs
       G
So she wakes up and fills up her own coffee cup
    D                        G        G7
And wonders if God hears her prayers


Chorus


    G                                                    D 
She serves up the bacon and the money she's makin' still won't pay the bills
    G                                                                 D   
The city is busy and always in motion but somehow for her time stands still
    C                                             G
She wonders if happiness lies in the country back home
          D                                                    G 
And she'd like to go back but she knows good and well that she won't


Chorus

So she wakes up and puts on her apron
What else can she do?

Outro:
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