Irene Wilde chords by Alejandro Escovedo

SimplifiedG · Bb · Bm · A

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Verse 1
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This is a song that was  (G major) written
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by one of  (B flat major) my favorite songwriters,
guy by the name of Ian Hunter.
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He was in a band called  (G major) Mata Hoople in
the 70s.
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I love Mata Hoople.  (B flat major) 
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 (G major) I  always say, I admit
that I was a Mata Hoople stalker
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for many  (G major) years.
I used to follow them around everywhere.
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But this  (B minor) is a song that Ian wrote
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 (G major) that I think is a beautiful song.
It's called Irene Wild.
It's a song about a guy
that's trying to impress a girl
by being in a rock band.
But she's not impressed by him at all.
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and  (B flat major) so he  (G major) goes off to his mother's  (A major) sitting room,
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 (B flat major) he writes many  (G major) songs about her,
one of which he hears on the radio,
and she still is not impressed with him whatsoever. But he
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says  (A major) that if it hadn't been for her messing him  (G major) up,
that he never would have
gone on to write songs.
So she's the inspiration
for all these songs.
It's a beautiful song.