All the credit for this goes to the guys at Whotabs. Slit Skirts | guitar tab By Pete Townshend >From All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, 1982 Written by Pete Townshend (c)1982 Eel Pie Publishing Ltd./Towser Tunes, Inc. #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# original transcription by: kenny@gil.net (Kenny Sahr) ============== transcribed by Whotabs litgo@aol.com 1998-07-22 www.thewho.net/whotabs ============== [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 I was just thirty-four years old and I was still ^Absus4wandering in a haze ^Ab ^F#sus4 I was wondering why everyone I ^F#met seemed like they were ^Ebsus4Lost in a maze ^Eb

^Bbm I don't know why I thought I should have some kind of ^Absus4Divine right to the blues ^Ab It's ^F#sus4sympathy not tears people ne^F#ed when they're the ^Ebsus4Front page sad ^Ebnews.

[enter acoustic]

The ^Bbsus2incense burned away and the ^Ebmaj7stench began to rise And ^Bbsus2lovers now estranged avoided ^Ebmaj7catching each others' eyes

And ^Fmaj7girls who lost their ^Cmaj7children cursed the ^Fmaj7men who fit the ^Cmaj7coil And ^Fmaj7men not fit for ^Cmaj7marriage took their ^Fmaj7refuge in the ^Cmaj7oil No ^Gmaj7one respects the ^Dmaj7flame quite like the ^Gmaj7fool who's badly ^Dmaj7burned From ^Gmaj7all this you'd i^Dmaj7magine that there ^C11must be something learned

[piano: (C Csus2 C5 Csus2 C Csus2 C5 Csus2 )] [chorus; enter electric]

^CSlit skirts, Jeanie never wears those ^Fadd9slit skirts And I don't ever wear no ^Am7ripped shirts Can't pretend that growing older ^Bbsus2never hurts.

^CKnee pants, Jeanie never wears no ^Fadd9knee pants Have to be so drunk to try a ^Am7new dance So afraid of every new ^Bbsus2romance

^DSlit skirts, slit skirt Jeanie isn't wearing those ^Bmslit skirts, slit skirt She wouldn't dare in those ^Gmaj7slit skirts, slit skirt Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit ^C11skirt

^DRomance, romance, why aren't we thinking up ^Bmromance' Why can't we drink it up ^Gmaj7true heart romance Just need a brief new ^C11romance

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 ============= litgo@aol.com #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#

Pete Townshend - Slit skirts