Slit Skirts Pete Townshend
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 21:59:42 GMT<br/> Subject: CRD: Slit Skirts by Pete Townshend<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Please tell me if I did this right and made life easy for you guys.<br/> There are many people all over the world who appreciate what you do<br/> and I for one would like to help whenever possible..<br/> <br/> <br/> SLIT SKIRTS<br/> INTRO:<br/> Bbm / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / ||<br/> VERSE I:<br/> I was just thirty-four years old and I was still<br/> Bbm<br/> Wandering in a haze<br/> Absus4 Ab<br/> I was wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were<br/> F#sus4 F#<br/> Lost in a maze<br/> Ebsus4 Eb<br/> I don't know why I thought I should have some kind of<br/> Bbm<br/> Divine right to the blues<br/> Absus4 Ab<br/> It's sympathy not tears people need when they're the<br/> F#sus4 F#<br/> Front Page sad news.<br/> Ebsus4 Eb<br/> The incense burned away and the<br/> Bb(add2)<br/> Stench began to rise<br/> Ebmaj7<br/> And lovers now estranged avoided<br/> Bb(add2)<br/> Catching each others' eyes<br/> Ebmaj7<br/> PRE-CHORUS I:<br/> And girls who lost their children cursed the<br/> Fmaj7 Cmaj7<br/> Men who fit the coil<br/> Fmaj7 Cmaj7<br/> And men not fit for marriage took their<br/> Fmaj7 Cmaj7<br/> Refuge in the oil<br/> Fmaj7 Cmaj7<br/> No-one respects the flame quite like the<br/> Gmaj7 Dmaj7<br/> Fool who's badly burned<br/> Gmaj7 Dmaj7<br/> >From all this you'd imagine that there<br/> Gmaj7 Dmaj7<br/> Must be something learned . . .<br/> C11<br/> CHORUS I<br/> Slit skirts, Jeanie isn't wearing those<br/> C<br/> Slit skirts, and I don't ever wear no<br/> F(add2)<br/> Ripped shirts, can't pretend that growing older<br/> Am7<br/> Never hurts.<br/> Bb(add2)<br/> Knee-pants, Jeanie never wears those<br/> C<br/> Knee-pants, have to be so drunk to try a<br/> F(add2)<br/> New dance, so afraid of every little<br/> Am7<br/> Romance . . .<br/> Bb(add2)<br/> Slit skirts, slit skirts, Jeanie isn't wearing those<br/> D<br/> Slit skirts, slit skirts, she wouldn't dare in those<br/> Bm<br/> Slit skirts, slit skirts, wouldn't be seen dead in those<br/> Gmaj7<br/> Slit skirts<br/> C11<br/> Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up<br/> D<br/> Romance? Why can't we drink it up<br/> Bm<br/> True-heart romance, just need a brief new little<br/> Gmaj7<br/> Romance . . .<br/> C11<br/> <br/> VERSE II<br/> <br/> Let me tell you some more about myself, you know I'm sitting at home<br/> just now.<br/> The big events of the day have passed and the late TV shows have come<br/> on.<br/> I'm number one on the home team, but I still feel unfulfilled. A<br/> silent voice<br/> in a broken heart complains that I'm unskilled. And I know that when<br/> she <br/> thinks of me, she thinks of me as him, but unlike me she don't workout<br/> her<br/> frustrations in the gym.<br/> <br/> Recriminations fester and the past can never change, a woman's<br/> expectations <br/> run from both ends of the range.<br/> <br/> Once she walked with untamed lovers face between her legs, <br/> Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg...<br/> <br/> <br/> [Repeat VERSE I, PRE-CHORUS I & CHORUS I]<br/> <br/> <br/> FADE<br/> [Repeat last four lines of CHORUS I]<br/> <br/> Collector of tabs for The Who...<br/> Author of Hebrew language Jordan/Syria Travel Guide<br/> <br/> </div> </div> <div class="breadcrumbs">
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