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Classy Girls chords by The Lumineers

Chords with lyrics

I wanted to play this song like they do live, in a lot of their acoustic bar
performances. It's a little loose on structure but very similar to Version 2,
which is played in C. Didn't feel like hitting transpose button every time.

Capo 3
Standard tuning

Intro/verse picking pattern (Like i said this part is free-styled a little bit,
but within the chords. You can definitely ad-lib.

Intro/first 3 Verses picking:

Chord diagramA augmentedA
|--------------------------------------|
|-------2-------------------2----------|
|---2-----------2--2--2----------2---2-|
|--------------------------------------|
|-0---0-----------0--0--0----------0---|
|--------------------------------------|

Chord diagramD MajorD
|---------2------------------2---------|
|---3------------3--3--3---------3---3-|
|--------------------------------------|
|-0---0-----------0--0--0----------0---|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|

Chord diagramE MajorE               Chord diagramD MajorD
|---------0------------------2---------|
|----------------------3---------3---3-|
|---1-----------1--1-------------------|
|--------------------0---0---------0---|
|-2---2-----------2--------------------|
|--------------------------------------|

Chord diagramA augmentedA
|--------------------------------------|
|-------2-------------------2----------|
|---2-----------2--2--2----------2---2-|
|--------------------------------------|
|-0---0-----------0--0--0----------0---|
|--------------------------------------|

intro and verse are just that repeated.

Chord diagramA augmentedA                Chord diagramA augmentedA
Welllll, she was standing in the bar
     Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramD MajorD
I said, "Hello, how do you do "
    Chord diagramE MajorE           Chord diagramD MajorD                  Chord diagramA augmentedA  Chord diagramA augmentedA
She handed me a beer with a kangaroo

Chord diagramA augmentedA              Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramD MajorD
She spoke of places I had never been
              Chord diagramD MajorD
That she had traveled to
    Chord diagramE MajorE                Chord diagramD MajorD                  Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramA augmentedA
And we slowed danced along to faster tunes

Chord diagramA augmentedA                                Chord diagramA augmentedA                          Chord diagramD MajorD
I made her laugh, I made a pass, I showed her my half dollar ring
                          Chord diagramD MajorD
She said, "That's pretty cool,
    Chord diagramE MajorE                   Chord diagramD MajorD                  Chord diagramA augmentedA    Chord diagramA augmentedA
But classy girls don't kiss in bars, you fool"

Interlude(Picking ends here and strumming starts):
Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramE MajorE Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramA augmentedA

Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramA augmentedA
So later on the crowd calmed down
    Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramD MajorD
And I believe it was as if
  Chord diagramE MajorE                Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramA augmentedA
Something drew me closer to her lips

Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramA augmentedA                 Chord diagramD MajorD                Chord diagramD MajorD
So picture my surprise when I had tried to lean in for a kiss
    Chord diagramE MajorE                   Chord diagramD MajorD                    Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramA augmentedA
And she just smiled and turned her head down

Chord diagramA augmentedA
I asked her, "Why " and she replied,
 Chord diagramA augmentedA                          Chord diagramD MajorD                        Chord diagramD MajorD
"It was nothing I was doing wrong, its just what it is"
      Chord diagramE MajorE                  Chord diagramD MajorD                Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramA augmentedA
No, classy girls don't kiss in bars like this

Chord diagramD MajorD                  Chord diagramE MajorE
No, classy girls don't kiss in bars
    Chord diagramD MajorD                  Chord diagramE MajorE
Boys will break their backs and hearts
    Chord diagramD MajorD                 Chord diagramE MajorE                  Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramE MajorE  Chord diagramE MajorE
But its alright, the hardest part is through

Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramE MajorE  Chord diagramE MajorE
Oh it's through
               Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramE MajorE  Chord diagramE MajorE
Oh it's through
               Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramE MajorE  Chord diagramE MajorE
Oh it's through
                      Chord diagramA augmentedA
The hardest part is through.

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