Slit Skirts

Gmaj7            3x5432
C11    x35511    x33511

[intro; piano]

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[verse; piano]

Bbm                               
  I was just thirty-four years old
                 Absus4            
 and I was still wandering in a 
  Ab
haze
F#sus4                           
  I was wondering why everyone I met
F#
 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                      
It's sympathy not tears people need 
F#
when they're the
Ebsus4         Eb
Front page sad news.

[enter acoustic]
    Bbsus2                      
The incense burned away and the 
Ebmaj7
stench began to rise
    Bbsus2                       
And lovers now estranged avoided 
Ebmaj7
catching each others' eyes

    Fmaj7                Cmaj7    
And girls who lost their children 
           Fmaj7           Cmaj7
cursed the men who fit the coil
    Fmaj7           Cmaj7         
And men not fit for marriage took 
      Fmaj7         Cmaj7
their refuge in the oil
   Gmaj7            Dmaj7         
No one respects the flame quite 
       Gmaj7            Dmaj7
like the fool who's badly burned
     Gmaj7           Dmaj7     
From all this you'd imagine that 
        C11
there must be something learned

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[piano: (C   Csus2   C5   Csus2   C 
  Csus2   C5   Csus2   )]

[chorus; enter electric]
C                             
Slit skirts, Jeanie never wears 
        Fadd9
those slit skirts
                         Am7
And I don't ever wear no ripped 
shirts
Can't pretend that growing older 
Bbsus2
never hurts.

C                                 
Knee pants, Jeanie never wears no 
Fadd9
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
Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit 
C11
skirt

D                             
Romance, romance, why aren't we 
              Bm
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]
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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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