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Slit Skirts | guitar tab
By Pete Townshend
>From All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, 1982
Written by Pete Townshend (c)1982 Eel Pie Publishing Ltd./Towser Tunes, Inc.
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original transcription by: kenny@gil.net (Kenny Sahr)
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transcribed by Whotabs
litgo@aol.com 1998-07-22 www.thewho.net/whotabs
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[Note: On record, capo on 1; electric only during chorus]
[note: lead is approximate]
acoustic electric (where applicable)
Bbsus2 x13311
Ebmaj7 x11333
Fmaj7 x33555
Cmaj7 x35453
Gmaj7 xx5777
Dmaj7 x57675
C11 x35511
[chorus]
C x3555x xxx5xx
Fadd9 133212 xxx5xx
Am7 5x555x xxx5xx
Bbsus2 x13311 xxxx11 and xxxx13 and xxxx15
D x5777x x5777x
Bm x24432 x24432
Gmaj7 3x5432
C11 x35511 x33511
[intro; piano]
| Bbm / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[verse; piano]
Bbm Absus4 Ab
I was just thirty-four years old and I was still wandering in a haze
F#sus4 F#
I was wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were
Ebsus4 Eb
Lost in a maze
Bbm
I don't know why I thought I should have some kind of
Absus4 Ab
Divine right to the blues
F#sus4 F#
It's sympathy not tears people need when they're the
Ebsus4 Eb
Front page sad news.
[enter acoustic]
Bbsus2 Ebmaj7
The incense burned away and the stench began to rise
Bbsus2 Ebmaj7
And lovers now estranged avoided catching each others' eyes
Fmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Cmaj7
And girls who lost their children cursed the men who fit the coil
Fmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Cmaj7
And men not fit for marriage took their refuge in the oil
Gmaj7 Dmaj7 Gmaj7 Dmaj7
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
Gmaj7 Dmaj7 C11
From all this you'd imagine that there must be something learned
[piano: (C Csus2 C5 Csus2 C Csus2 C5 Csus2 )]
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[chorus; enter electric]
C Fadd9
Slit skirts, Jeanie never wears those slit skirts
Am7
And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Bbsus2
Can't pretend that growing older never hurts.
C Fadd9
Knee pants, Jeanie never wears no knee pants
Am7
Have to be so drunk to try a new dance
Bbsus2
So afraid of every new romance
D
Slit skirts, slit skirt
Bm
Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts, slit skirt
Gmaj7
She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts, slit skirt
C11
Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt
D Bm
Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up romance?
Gmaj7
Why can't we drink it up true heart romance
C11
Just need a brief new romance
Let me tell you some more about myself, you know I'm sitting at home just now.
The big events of the day are passed and the late TV shows have come around.
I'm number one in the home team, but I still feel unfulfilled.
A silent voice in her broken heart complaining that I'm unskilled.
And I know that when she thinks of me, she thinks of me as him,
But, unlike me, she don't work off her frustration in the gym.
Recriminations fester and the past can never change
A woman's expectations run from both ends of the range
Once she walked with untamed lovers' face between her legs
Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg
[repeat chorus]
Slit skirts, Jeanie never wears those slit skirts
And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Can't pretend that growing older never hurts
Knee pants, Jeanie never wears no knee pants
We have to be so drunk to try a new dance
So afraid of every new romance
Slit skirts, slit skirt
Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts, slit skirt
She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts, slit skirt
Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt
Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up romance?
Why can't we drink it up true heart romance
Just need a brief new romance
[outro solo]
D Bm
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|-7^\-5---5----5----|-5---5-----|-8-7-5---5----5----|-5---5-----|
|------7^\-7^\-7^\--|-7^--7^\---|------7^\-7^\-7^\--|-7^--7^\---|
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Gmaj7 C11
|-------------------|-----------|----8-5-----8-5---|----5-------------|
|-8-7-5---5----5----|-5---5-----|--5----8--5----8--|--5--5-8--5-------|
|------7^\-7^\-7^\--|-7^--7^\---|--7^\-----7^\-----|--7^\-----7^\-5---|
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Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up romance?
Why can't we drink it up true heart romance
Just need a brief new romance
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litgo@aol.com
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
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