Key: Bb minor
Intro 1
Am
Verse 1
Verse 2
away
Verse 3
E
B
cursed the men who fit the coil
E
B
And men not fit for marriage
E
B
took their refuge in the oil
F#
C#
No one respects the flame quite like
F#
C#
the fool who's badly burned
F#
C#
From all this you'd imagine that there
B
F#
must be something learned
B
Verse 4
F#
Can't pretend that growing
B
A
older never hurts
Verse 5
G#m
Have to be so drunk to try a new dance
Verse 6
A#m
Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts,
slit skirt
slit skirt
Verse 7
Why can't we drink it up
B
A
Just need a brief new romance
Verse 8
F
The big events of the day are passed and the
Verse 9
Verse 10
E
B
Recriminations fester and the
E
B
past can never change
E
B
A woman's expectations run
E
B
from both ends of the range
F#
C#
Once she woke with untamed lovers'
F#
C#
face between her legs
F#
C#
Now he's cooled and stifled and it's
B
F#
she who has to beg
B
F#
Verse 11
G#m
And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Can't pretend that growing
B
A
older never hurts
Verse 12
G#m
We have to be so drunk to try a new dance
Verse 13
Bbm
Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts,
slit skirt
slit skirt
B
A
Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt
Verse 14
Bbm
Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts,
slit skirt
C#
F#
She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts,
slit skirt
Wouldn't be seen dead
A
B
A
in no slit skirt
Verse 15
Why can't we drink it
A
C#
Just need a brief new
C#
Bbm
Bbm
F#
F#
romance
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