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John Prine – It's A Cheating Situation (1999) | Track profile | Dork

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In Spite of Ourselves
It's A Cheating Situation

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It's A Cheating Situation

Release date: 1999

From In Spite of Ourselves

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"It's A Cheating Situation" is a track by John Prine, from the album In Spite of Ourselves , released 1999. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

It's A Cheating Situation

It's a cheating situation

A stealing invitation

To take what's not really ours

To make it through the midnight hours

It's a cheating situation

Just a cheap imitation

Doing what we have to do

When there's no love at home

There's no use in pretending

There'll be a happy ending

Where our love's concerned

Sweetheart, we both know

We'll take love where we find it

Love and try to hide it

It's all we got, for we know

They're not gonna let us go

It's a cheating situation

A stealing invitation

To take what's not really ours

To make it through the midnight hours

It's a cheating situation

Just a cheap imitation

Doing what we have to do

When there's no love at home

It's a cheating situation

When there's no love at home

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Track details

From In Spite of Ourselves

1999

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Album

In Spite of Ourselves

Release year

1999

—Let's Invite Them Over
—Milwaukee Here I Come
—We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds
—We Could
—Dear John (I Sent Your Saddle Home)
—I Know One
—Loose Talk
—Back Street Affair
—(We're Not) The Jet Set
—It's A Cheating Situation
—When Two Worlds Collide
—'Til a Tear Becomes a Rose
—Wedding Bells/Let's Turn Back the Years
—In Spite of Ourselves
—So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
—In a Town This Size

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Production & Engineering

Writer: Curly Putman, Sonny Throckmorton
Producer: Jim Rooney, John Prine
Keyboards: Glen Hardin
Vocals: Dolores Keane, John Prine
Acoustic Guitar: Arty McGlynn, Jim Rooney, John Prine
Double Bass: James Blennerhassett
Mastering Engineer: Denny Purcell
Mixing Engineer: Mark Miller (Nashville Engineer)
Percussion: Pat McInerney
Recording Engineer: Mark Miller (Nashville Engineer)