Don't Put Her Down You Helped Put Her There

Courtney Granger

Written by Hazel Dickens

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C                      G7             C
Don't put her down you helped put her there

Verse 2

             G7           F        C
You pull the string she's your plaything
                                   G7
You can make her or break her it's true
    F                         C
You abuse her accuse her turn around and you use her
                     G7            C
Then forsake her any time it suits you

Verse 3

             G7               F          C
Well there's more to her than powder and paint
                                G7
Than her peroxided bleached out hair
        F                            C
Well if she acts that way it's cause you had your day
                       G7             C
Don't put her down you helped put her there

Verse 4

          G7     F           C
She hangs around playing the clown
                           G7
While her soul is aching inside
      F                           C
She's heartbreak's child she just lives for your smile
                     G7            C
To build her up in a world made by men

Verse 2

             G7           F        C
You pull the string she's your plaything
                                   G7
You can make her or break her it's true
    F                         C
You abuse her accuse her turn around and you use her
                     G7            C
Then forsake her any time it suits you

Verse 5

                      G7      F             C
At the house down the way you sneak and you play
                              G7
For the love her body and her shame
         F
Then you call yourself a man
            C
You say you just don't understand
                  G7            C
How a woman could turn out that way

Verse 6

             G7               F          C
Well there's more to her that powder and paint
                                 G7
Than the men she picks up at the bar
        F                            C
Well if she acts that way it's cause you had your day
                       G7             C
Don't put her down you helped put her there

Verse 7

        F                            C
Well if she acts that way it's cause you had your day
                       G7             C
Don't put her down you helped put her there