QUITTIN' TIME (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 C Fmaj7 G G lines (after "tell me what we're gonna do") is just Gsus4-Gsus4-G, Gsus4-Gsus4-G. Finger G as 320003, 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. C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G [intro] C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G Hey .. C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G It's .. C C F F G G G G We were .. C C F F G G G G Now .. Am G/B C C F C/E G G But .. Am G/B C F And .. Am F (2/4) G It's .. (4/4) C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G [instrumental] Hey .. (C C FM7 FM7 G G G G) Please ..(C C FM7 FM7 G G G G) Now ..(C C F F G G G G) Just ..(C C F F G G G G) [Chorus] [Guitar solo, same chords as chorus] [Repeat second verse] But ..(Am G C C F C G G) And .. (Am G C F) It's ..(Am F G C) But ..(Am G C C F C G G) And .. (Am G C F) It's ..... (Am F G) (So .. (Am F G) So .. (Am F G C) - Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com
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