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  Slit Skirts
  By Pete Townshend
  >From All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, 1982
  Written by Pete Townshend ©1982 Eel Pie Publishing Ltd./Towser Tunes, Inc.
  
  original transcription by: kenny@gil.net (Kenny Sahr)
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  transcribed by
  litgo@aol.com
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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   )]
  
  [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
  |-------------------|-----------|-------------------|-----------|
  |-7^-5---5----5----|-5---5-----|-8-7-5---5----5----|-5---5-----|
  |------7^-7^-7^--|-7^--7^---|------7^-7^-7^--|-7^--7^---|
  |-------------------|-----------|-------------------|-----------|
  |-------------------|-----------|-------------------|-----------|
  |-------------------|-----------|-------------------|-----------|
  
    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---|
  |-------------------|-----------|------------------|------------------|
  |-------------------|-----------|------------------|------------------|
  |-------------------|-----------|------------------|------------------|
  
  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
  

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