The Hots For The Smarts chords by
Richard Thompson

N/A•

Key: A major•

Verse 1

G

G

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C

C

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I like a girl in satin

F

F

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Who talks dirty

In

Latin

C

C

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F

F

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C

C

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A girl who's flirty

F

F

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When she quotes, hmm,

Krishnamurti

C

C

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Now if she likes to be goosed

F

F

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While reciting from

Proust

Bb

Bb

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F

F

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Bb

Bb

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Then I know she's my kind of creature

F

F

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G

G

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Among her delectables

Her intellectables

C

C

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F

F

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Must be her sexiest feature

C

C

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G

G

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Cm

Cm

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C

C

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Cm

Cm

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C

C

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I've got the hots for the smart

F

F

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G

G

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F

F

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The hots for the smart

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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IQ off the chart

G

G

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F

F

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Give me brains over hearts

Dm

Dm

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Any day

G

G

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C

C

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F

F

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I've got the hots for the smart

C

C

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I want a girl from

G

G

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Mensa

C

C

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G

G

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F

F

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With a furrowed brow

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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When the tenses get denser

F

F

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She gets it, and how

I need a polymath called

C

C

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F

F

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Cindy or

Kath

Bb

Bb

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Who likes her

Plato, not too platonic

G

G

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An autodidact who can add and subtract

C

C

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while sipping her

F

F

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G

G

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C

C

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Tolstoy and tonic. I've got the hots for the smarts,

G

G

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C

C

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F

F

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the hots for

C

C

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Cm

Cm

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G

G

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C

C

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the smarts. I cue off the cheers,

F

F

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G

G

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F

F

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give me brains over hearts.

Dm

Dm

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G

G

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Every time I've got the

C

C

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F

F

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Hots for the smarts

G

G

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C

C

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There's more

G

G

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C

C

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I wanna go with a feel

F

F

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For

Faraday's wheel

Cm

Cm

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C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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A girl who'll drool

F

F

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For

Fleming's

Left -hand rule, thank you

Now some men like pin -ups

Of girls who do chin -ups

Like

Bb

Bb

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F

F

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Xena, the warrior princess

Bb

Bb

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F

F

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Bb

Bb

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G

G

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But I'll take to dinner my

Nobel

Prize winner

C

C

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F

F

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With plutonium stains down her dress

C

C

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G

G

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I've got the hearts for the smart

C

C

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F

F

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G

G

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Hearts for the smart

C

C

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G

G

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I cue off the charts

C

C

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C#dim

C#dim

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C

C

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Bb

Bb

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F

F

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Give me brains

Dm

Dm

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over hearts

G

G

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C

C

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I've got the hots for the smarts

F

F

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Cm

Cm

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There's more

G

G

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C

C

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I want a girl who knows loads of

F

F

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Kick a garden, spinosa

Cm

Cm

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G

G

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C

C

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A girl who plays jazz

F

F

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Humming

Porgy and

Bess

Now her face may have scars

Dm

Dm

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F

F

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Like the surface of

Mars

Bb

Bb

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But as long as her mind is

G

G

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spectacular. I'll forgive her bad skin and

C

C

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her breath tinged with gin and a smile

F

F

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just as sweet as

Count

Cm

Cm

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C

C

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G

G

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Dracula. I've got the...

C

C

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F

F

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I've got the...

C

C

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got the...

I've

G

G

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C

C

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of the...

F

F

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IQ

G

G

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C

C

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me brains over...

F

F

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Dm

Dm

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over...

G

G

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C

C

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I've got the...

F

F

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You guys, you guys.

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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There's more.

G

G

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C

C

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I can't remember what it is. I know the words,

G

G

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I know the words.

C

C

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G

G

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Oh yeah.

C

C

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G

G

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I want a girl with a brain

F

F

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The size of

Siberia

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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With a haughty disdain

F

F

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For all things inferior

I don't want some learner

without bumps and burner

Bb

Bb

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Ah, she must be the finished article

G

G

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Who sees our attraction as

a chemical reaction

F

F

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C

C

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And charm as merely...

F

F

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C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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I've got the...

F

F

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C

C

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Bb

Bb

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F

F

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I've got the...

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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IQ of them

G

G

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C

C

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F

F

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Dm

Dm

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G

G

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C

C

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F

F

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Give me brains over

C

C

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There's more

G

G

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What a

C

C

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PhD

F

F

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Who reads linear?

be

Cm

Cm

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G

G

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C

C

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G

G

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Who applies her lotion?

F

F

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With a brownie in motion

C

C

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F

F

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Now some may favour a girl who's a raver,

Bb

Bb

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F

F

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Bb

Bb

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or a tease, or a saucy young minx

G

G

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But I'll get undressed with the

girl I'm impressed with

C

C

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G

G

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Dm

Dm

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She's tunnelling under the sphinx

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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I've got the hots for the smarts

F

F

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G

G

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F

F

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I've got the hots for the smarts

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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I cue off the charts

G

G

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C

C

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Give me brains over hearts

F

F

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Dm

Dm

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I can 't help myself

G

G

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C

C

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I've got the hearts

for the smarts

F

F

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Dm

Dm

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Oh please, please, please

G

G

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C

C

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I've got the hearts

F

F

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for the smarts

Thank you very much, thank you.

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Tuning:Standard Open Tuner

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C ₃

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Chords

G
C
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Bb
Cm
Dm
C#dim

Capo: 2

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Frequently asked questions

The original key of The Hots For The Smarts by Richard Thompson is A major.

The primary chords used in The Hots For The Smarts are A, D, G, C, Dm, Em.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 2 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like A, D, G, C, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of The Hots For The Smarts is approximately 57 beats per minute.

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