It Takes A Man

Em/D D

[Verse]
               Em/D    D          
She locked her fingers and bowed 
   Em/D  D
her head
               E7/G#               
She said, "I'm late and I'm really 
         G
scared"
              Em/D B              
Now you can go     but I hope you 
      Em/D   D
stay
              E7/G#            G
I'm gonna keep  it either way

[Chorus]
      G          D           
In my daddy's El Camino in her 
  G               D
driveway in the rain
G               D                
Starin' through that windshield, 
        A                     G
I could see my future change
                        D          
And my heart hit like a hammer, and
    G                           Bm
 my thoughts were runnin' wild
    A                           
Any fool can make a baby, but it 
                G
takes a man to raise a child

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[Solo] (x2)
Em/D D

[Verse]
              Em/D  D          
I laid my head       down on the 
         Em/D   D
wheel
                  E7               
She said, "I know,  I know it don't
             G
 seem real"
                   Em/D  D        
She closed her eyes       but the 
             Em/D     D
tears flowed through
                      E7           
She said, "Don't hate me for lovin'
 G
 you"

[Chorus]
      G          D           
In my daddy's El Camino in her 
  G               D
driveway in the rain
G               D                
Starin' through that windshield, 
        A                     G
I could see my future change
                        D          
And my heart hit like a hammer, and
    G                           Bm
 my thoughts were runnin' wild
    A                           
Any fool can make a baby, but it 
                G
takes a man to raise a child

[Bridge]
      Em                       
Oh, I could not reassure her, I 
          F#m
couldn't say what I had planed
         G                         
Couldn't put three words together, 
   A
so I just took her hand ---

[Solo] (x2)
Em/D D

[Chorus]
      G          D           
In my daddy's El Camino in her 
  G               D
driveway in the rain
G               D                
Starin' through that windshield, 
        A                     G
I could see my future change
                        D          
And my heart hit like a hammer, and
    G                           Bm
 my thoughts were runnin' wild
    A                           
Any fool can make a baby, but it 
                G
takes a man to raise a child