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Classy Girls Chords by The Lumineers

Classy Girls chords by The Lumineers

Guitar 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:

A
|--------------------------------------|
|-------2-------------------2----------|
|---2-----------2--2--2----------2---2-|
|--------------------------------------|
|-0---0-----------0--0--0----------0---|
|--------------------------------------|
D
|---------2------------------2---------|
|---3------------3--3--3---------3---3-|
|--------------------------------------|
|-0---0-----------0--0--0----------0---|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|

E               D
|---------0------------------2---------|
|----------------------3---------3---3-|
|---1-----------1--1-------------------|
|--------------------0---0---------0---|
|-2---2-----------2--------------------|
|--------------------------------------|

A
|--------------------------------------|
|-------2-------------------2----------|
|---2-----------2--2--2----------2---2-|
|--------------------------------------|
|-0---0-----------0--0--0----------0---|
|--------------------------------------|

intro and verse are just that repeated.

A                A
Welllll, she was standing in the bar
     D              D
I said, "Hello, how do you do?"
    E           D                  A  A
She handed me a beer with a kangaroo

A              A            D
She spoke of places I had never been
              D
That she had traveled to
    E                D                  A   A
And we slowed danced along to faster tunes

A                                A                          D
I made her laugh, I made a pass, I showed her my half dollar ring
                          D
She said, "That's pretty cool,
    E                   D                  A    A
But classy girls don't kiss in bars, you fool"

Interlude(Picking ends here and strumming starts):
A A D D E D A

A            A
So later on the crowd calmed down
    D            D
And I believe it was as if
  E                D              A   A
Something drew me closer to her lips

A            A                 D                D
So picture my surprise when I had tried to lean in for a kiss
    E                   D                    A   A
And she just smiled and turned her head down

A
I asked her, "Why?" and she replied,
 A                          D                        D
"It was nothing I was doing wrong, its just what it is"
      E                  D                A   A
No, classy girls don't kiss in bars like this

D                  E
No, classy girls don't kiss in bars
    D                  E
Boys will break their backs and hearts
    D                 E                  A D  E  E
But its alright, the hardest part is through

A D  E  E
Oh it's through
               A D  E  E
Oh it's through
               A D  E  E
Oh it's through
                      A
The hardest part is through.

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