Slit Skirts chords by
Pete Townshend

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Key: Bb minor

Intro 1

Verse 1
Am Am 
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I was just thirty-four years years old
G G 
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and I was still wandering in a haze
F F 
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I was wondering why everyone I met
D D 
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seemed like they were lost in a maze
Am Am 
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I don't know why I thought I should have
G G 
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some kind of divine right to the blues
F F 
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It's sympathy not tears people need
D D 
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when they're the front page, sad news
A A 
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The incense burned

Verse 2
away
D D 
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and the stench began to rise
A A 
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And lovers now estranged avoided
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catching each others' eyes
E E 
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And girls who lost

Verse 3
B B 2
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their children
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B B 2
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cursed the men who fit the coil
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B B 2
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And men not fit for marriage
E E 
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B B 2
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took their refuge in the oil
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C# C# 4
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No one respects the flame quite like
F# F# 2
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C# C# 4
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the fool who's badly burned
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C# C# 4
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From all this you'd imagine that there
B B 2
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F# F# 2
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must be something learned
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Verse 4
F# F# 2
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B B 2
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Slit skirts
E E 
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Jeanie never wears those slit skirts
G#m G#m 4
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I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Can't pretend that growing
B B 2
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A A 
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older never hurts

Verse 5

Knee pants

Jeanie never wears no knee pants

G#m

Have to be so drunk to try a new dance

So afraid of every new romance

Verse 6
C# C# 4
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Slit skirts, slit skirt
A#m A#m 
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Jeanie isn't wearing those slit  skirts,
slit skirt
F# F# 2
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She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts,
slit skirt
A A 
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Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt

Verse 7
C# C# 4
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Romance, romance
A#m A#m 
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Why aren't we thinking up romance?
Why can't we drink it up
F# F# 2
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true heart romance
B B 2
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A A 
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Just need a brief new romance

Verse 8
Am Am 
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Let me tell you some more about myself,
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you know I'm sitting at home just now
F F 
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The big events of the day are passed and the
D D 
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late TV shows have come around
Am Am 
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I'm number one in the home
G G 
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team but I still feel unfulfilled
F F 
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A silent voice in her broken heart
D D 
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complaining that I'm unskilled

Verse 9

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

Verse 10
E E 
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B B 2
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Recriminations fester and the
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B B 2
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past can never change
E E 
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B B 2
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A woman's expectations run
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B B 2
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from both ends of the range
F# F# 2
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C# C# 4
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Once she woke with untamed lovers'
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C# C# 4
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face between her legs
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C# C# 4
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Now he's cooled and stifled and it's
B B 2
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F# F# 2
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she who has to beg
B B 2
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F# F# 2
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Verse 11
B B 2
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Slit skirts
E E 
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Jeanie never wears those slit skirts
G#m G#m 4
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And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Can't pretend that growing
B B 2
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A A 
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older never hurts

Verse 12

Knee pants

Jeanie never wears no knee pants

G#m

We have to be so drunk to try a new dance

So afraid of every new romance

Verse 13
C# C# 4
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Slit skirts, slit skirt
Bbm Bbm 
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Jeanie isn't wearing those slit  skirts,
slit skirt
F# F# 2
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She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts,
slit skirt
B B 2
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A A 
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Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt

Verse 14
C# C# 4
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Slit skirts, slit skirt
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Jeanie isn't wearing those slit  skirts,
slit skirt
C# C# 4
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F# F# 2
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She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts,
slit skirt
Wouldn't be seen dead
A A 
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B B 2
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A A 
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in no slit skirt

Verse 15
C# C# 4
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Romance, romance
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Why aren't we thinking up ro    mance?
Why can't we drink it
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up true heart romance
A A 
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C# C# 4
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Just need a brief new
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Bbm Bbm 
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F# F# 2
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romance

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