Bank Of The Boston Beauty Queen chords by The Dresden Dolls

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse:
G+G             AbAb
I've tried dolls that were guaranteed
                    FF
sixteen or under none were very exciting
G+G             DmDm
Sorta like a laugh track or whacking off
         FF        G+G    Bb majorBb
they'll get you off but it's just not the real thing
G+G        C minorCm
Its been decades since my pit days
              G+G         C majorC
But I haven't shaken it - I sit there like an idiot

G+G                AbAb
Still caught up in the old punk protocol
                   AbAb
And dreaming that the teenagers will think
         C majorC
that I'm a radical
                FF
and I still wait for the bus to come where
           Eb MajorEb   FF
the high school got torn down
C minorCm         Eb MajorEb
Still expecting to find true love among the
F minorFm
skateboarders hanging out
  FF               AbAb
In the back of the bank in my hometown

Interlude:
C minorCm FF

Verse:
G+G                  A minorAm
All this talk and no action's got me stiff
          BB
from the tit to the bone
FF        C majorC         BB
So I'm living in la la land - but at least I'm
F minorFm      C minorCm
not living at home

G+G           DmDm
Same old catcalls, the same old
FF
chemicals
             F minorFm
Same old thrills stealing stockings from
    G+G
the shopping mall
C minorCm
It's simple enough to grow the fuck up
FF
happy with the rough cut
G+G               BB       C majorC
Nobodys in here looking for a diamond in the rough but

          BB            FF         BB
I still wait for my mom to come and pick me up at Holly's house
C minorCm    C majorC     FF
10 years after they cashed it in to make a
AbAb              Bb majorBb
multi-level parking lot for a seven-eleven
  Bb majorBb
and Burger King

C minorCm            AbAb
I've got cryptographs I've got all the phones tapped
 C minorCm         A minorAm
It's proof enough it is indisputable
C minorCm
Love's not good enough
F minorFm
I want photographs
C minorCm
Something that will teach me my
      AbAb
arithmetic at last...

Interlude:
G+G C minorCm G+G B minorBm C majorC

Verse:
G+G                  C minorCm
Better get your kids in - I'm on the loose again
  A augmentedA        BB
And getting more ridiculous the more I
DmDm           FF
think I ought to get my mind out of the
G+G
gutter
       FF     G+G
(it's getting dangerous, Amanda-you are
DmDm          E MajorE
old enough to be the pork)
   G+G       DmDm
He's my own private highway from the
FF
cradle to the grave
             C majorC
I save a bundle skipping middle age and
F minorFm
Saturdays

  G+G              FF
and I still wait for the cops to come where
  C minorCm          FF
the station since burned down
G+G            FF
Still expecting they'll pick me up for all the
Eb MajorEb           FF
sins I committed in the back of the banged-up pickup truck

C minorCm    Bb majorBb     FF     C minorCm
I've got autographs, backstage passes
  FF
and leather jacket back patches up the ass
C minorCm          FF  AbAb
Ask me anything I've got evidence
C minorCm       Bb majorBb
Single serving saccharine packets
FF        Bb majorBb       AbAb
dripping black with lipstick kisses

Instrumental:
C minorCm Bb majorBb A augmentedA AbAb C minorCm DmDm FF
AbAb C minorCm A minorAm FF

Verse:
 G+G             FF
I still wait for the bus to come back where
        Eb MajorEb     DmDm
the high school got torn down
BB         Bb majorBb      FF
Still expecting to find true love among the
Eb MajorEb      FF
skateboarders hanging out
FF
In the back of the bank in my home-

DmDm          C minorCm
I'm no pederast just out of interest
AbAb         C minorCm    FF
Thank you, but I'm capable of getting up
          AbAb
and getting dressed

C minorCm           Bb majorBb
Love's not good enough I want
AbAb
photographs
  C minorCm       FF        AbAb
Something that will teach me common sense
C minorCm      Bb majorBb
Time and time again
 FF         C minorCm  Bb majorBb
I think I'll dye my hair again
AbAb
Oh god
C minorCm
Sixteen
C minorCm
No, I'm ten
AbAb FF
I'm seventeen
G+G
And a bank of Boston beauty queen...

Outro:
C minorCm G+G C minorCm G+G