#------------PLEASE NOTE------------# #This file is the author’s own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study scholarship or research. # #------------# (by Robb Royer & Roger Linn; performed by Mary-Chapin Carpenter) Okay a couple notes about this song. First of all the electric guitar plays this song in D and Mary-Chapin plays the acoustic guitar in C capoed up two frets (as I’ve written it here). Don’t worry too much about the bass notes in the chorus; they were just so obvious I had to put them in. The little riff at the end of the lines (after "tell me what and use your index finger to do the first fret on the B string. (Of course it’s Asus4-Asus4-A if you play it in D.) Each chord is half a measure. Capo 2. One more thing: in her 1994 Acoustic Tour MCC performed a slowed-down version of this song. The chords were pretty much the same but it was finger-picked instead of strummed and there was an E or E7 chord between the G and Am right before "But you pretend..." Try it. [intro] Hey baby tell me what we’re gonna do It’s getting crazy and I need some help from you We were so connected that you were a part of me Now I feel an emptiness right to the heart of me But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine And though we should be at an end It’s so hard admittin’ when it’s quittin’ time [instrumental] Hey baby I’m running out of things to say ( ) Please don’t hate me this feeling just won’t go away ( ) Now we’re spending all our time caught in fantasy ( ) Just trying to keep in mind the way it used to be ( ) [Chorus] [Guitar solo same chords as chorus] [Repeat second verse] But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine ( ) And though we should be at an end ( ) It’s so hard admittin’ when it’s quittin’ time ( ) But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine ( ) And though we should be at an end ( ) It’s so hard admittin’ when it’s quittin’... ( ) (So hard admittin’ when it’s quittin’...) ( ) So hard admittin’ when it’s quittin’ time ( ) - Adam Schneider schneidebox.com