Don't Treat Me Bad

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DON’T TREAT ME BAD
By: Bill Leverty, Carl Snare,
    Michael Foster, Cosby Ellis
Firehouse
Key: A	

-6*-6*  6    6      6    6  6-6*
I  nev-er thought you'd hurt me
-6* -6*  6  -6*   6  5*-4-3
I guess you live and learn
 -7    -7    -7  -7   -7  -6*
When you're play-in' with fire 
  5*   6 -6* 6   5* 5* -4
you're bound to get burned
-6*   6    6    6  6-6*
I've been mis-treat-ed, 
 6    6   -6*6 6  5*-4 
I've been used be-fore
-7 -7   -7   -7 -7  6-6*
I get kicked in the face, 
  6   5*6-6*  6    5*  5* 
still I come back for more

Pre-Chorus:

 6  6  -6*   6  6   6
But I won't cry no more
   5*   6   -6*   6  -6* 6  -4-3
'Cause the tears are all in vain
-6*-6* -6* -6* -6* 6-6*  6   
We can pick up the piec-es, 
6-6*  6  -6* -76-6*  
start it all a-gain
-6*   -6*  -6*  -6* 6  -3  -6* 6   6  6  -4-3
Let's just get back to the way it was be-fore
-7   -7  -7   -7   -7  -7 -7 6-6*6
Oh, girl, I can't take an-y- more

Chorus:

-7 6-6*  -7     -7  -7 6-6*6
Ba- by, don't treat me bad
 6     -7   -7   -7 -7  6-6*   6    
Well, this could be the best thing 
 5*   6 -6* 6  5* 5*-4 
that you’ll ev-er have
-7 6-6*  -7     -7  -7 6-6*6
Ba- by, don't treat me bad
 6  -6* -7 -7 -7 6-6*   6 6-6* 6 
You can do an-y-thing, but ba-by
  6    55*  5* -4-3
don't treat me bad
 8*     8*    8*  8* -8-7
whoa, don't treat me bad

6   6  -6*  6  5*   6  
Oh, I gave ev-‘ry-thing, 
 6   6   -6*  6  -6* 6 5*-4-3 
but you threw it all a- way
-7  -7   -7  -7 -7 6-6*
I can't take an-y- more 
6    5*   6-6*   6   5* -44*-4 
of these games that you play
 6    -6*    6     6      6    6 
Well, I've been through heart-ache, 
 5*  -6*  -6*    6   5*-4-3
and I've been through pain
 6   -6*  -7  -7 -7  -6*
And it's hard to be-lieve 
 6    5*   6-6*  6  5* 5*-4   
you still treat me this way

 6  6  -6*   6  6   6
But I won't cry no more
   5*   6   -6*   6  -6* 6  -4-3
'Cause the tears are all in vain
-6*-6* -6* -6* -6* 6-6*  6   
We can pick up the piec-es, 
6-6*  6  -6* -76-6*  
start it all a-gain
-6*   -6*  -6*  -6* 6  -3  -6* 6   6  6  -4-3
Let's just get back to the way it was be-fore
-7   -7  -7   -7   -7  -7 -7 6-6*6
Oh, girl, I can't take an-y- more

-7 6-6*  -7     -7  -7 6-6*6
Ba- by, don't treat me bad
 6     -7   -7   -7 -7  6-6*   6    
Well, this could be the best thing 
 5*   6 -6* 6  5* 5*-4 
that you’ll ev-er have
-7 6-6*  -7     -7  -7 6-6*6
Ba- by, don't treat me bad
 6  -6* -7 -7 -7 6-6*   6 6-6* 6 
You can do an-y-thing, but ba-by
  6    55*  5* -4-3
don't treat me bad
 8*     8*    8*  8* -8-7
whoa, don't treat me bad

  7*    -7  -7  -7    -7  -7-7 6-6*6 
Cause, girl, I can't take an-y-more
6   10 
Oh yeah
-7   -7   6  6  6
Now, lis-ten to me

-7 6-6*  -7     -7  -7 6-6*6
Ba- by, don't treat me bad
 6     -7   -7   -7 -7  6-6*   6    
Well, this could be the best thing 
 5*   6 -6* 6  5* 5*-4 
that you’ll ev-er have
-7 6-6*  -7     -7  -7 6-6*6
Ba- by, don't treat me bad
 6  -6* -7 -7 -7 6-6*   6 6-6* 6 
You can do an-y-thing, but ba-by
  6    55*  5* -4-3
don't treat me bad

Outro

10-10*  10 -10* -8-7
don't treat me  bad
-11-10*10-10*  
No, 
9*-8-7 -7    -7  -7 8*-8-7
yeah don't treat me  bad
-7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7
No no no no no no
 -7     8*  -8 8*-88*-8-7-6*
don't treat me     bad
-98*-8  7*  7* -7
don't treat me bad
10-10*-10*-11-11-12
Ah

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