Up Until Then

Intro: G/D/C/D (x4)

               G           D      
They dropped a dime on the girl in
     C          D
 the parking lot
        G             D      C   
Who was looking for a man of 
   D
steel
          G           D           
Who would fill up her nights with 
C         D
forget-me-nots
      G            D          C  
And a dream no one else could 
     D
reveal

    G       D            C      
Her new man said to meet him at 
D
eight
    G       D              C       D
She came in dressed to the nines
       G          D            C 
But by ten it was clear he was 
        D
more than late
        G             D            
And she just wouldn't take it this 
C       D
time

    Em                     D
The bartender said she had had 
enough
          G                     
That he'd call a cab to take her 
     C
somewhere
        Em                  
But she wasn't a stranger to 
 D
loneliness
        G                          
She had grown up and spent her life
 C
 there

CHORUS
     G              D
Up until then, up until then
            C              Em
It happened over and over again
     G              D          
Up until then, up until then, up 
    C         D
until then

     G            D           
Well practice had increased her 
  C        D
tolerance
            G      D         C   
And she had hardly eaten all day
    D

Continúa después del anuncio
        G         D         C
She was all hyped up on her new 
       D
romance
        G            D     C       D
But she drank in the usual way

    G              D              
She stepped out to breathe and to 
C       D
dry her eyes
   G         D               C   
To check her machine just in case
     D

       G           D       C     D
He had called to excuse or apologize
         G         D        C    
When she saw his unpenitent face
    D


   Em                             
He approached with a girl she had 
D
seen before
  G                       C
A bimbo up from Raspberry Street
        Em                     D
When he saw her he laughed and so 
did the whore
               G                 
They dropped a ten dollar bill at 
       C
their feet

[CHORUS]

[INSTRUMENTAL BDA K: G/D/C/D (x2)]

        G            D            
She was small he was tall but she 
C           D
blocked his path
      G            D         C   
She explained in unprintable 
     D
words
    G          D             C   
The reason she seized him so full
    D
 of wrath
               G          
That more than half of the 
 D            C        D
neighborhood heard

    G                D             
She sprayed him with mace from her 
C        D
pocketbook
         G             D      
And then kicked in his personal 
  C        D
zones
    G                D      
Her high heels would ruin his 
  C       D
perfect looks
           G         D        C  
She left a couple of unbroken 
      D
bones

         Em                  D
Well the bimbo she ran in to get the
 cops
        G                         
But the owner had called from the 
C
bar
        Em                         
It took two cars with dogs just to 
D
make her stop
    G                          C
I'm told that's how some women are

[CHORUS]

               G           D      
They dropped a dime on the girl in
     C          D
 the parking lot
              G            D      
But she would suffer in no 
   C        D
permanent way
    G            D           C   
She spent thirty nights on a 
      D
county cot
            G           D         
And she's regarded with fear till 
     C        D
this day

     G                    D
Up until then, but never again
            C              Em
It happened over and over again
     G              D          
Up until then, up until then, up 
    C        D
until then

Em                            
Now she's tending bar where the 
  D
Pagans
    used to meet
         C
And he's living with that bimbo up 
on
    D                G
    Raspberry Street