Black Tie chords by Grace Petrie

Verse 1:

G
Well it’s a jungle out there

D                        A7
The year 2018, I didn’t think

                           C                G
We’d still be sorting babies into blue and pink

And all our progress

D
Well I wonder what it means

         Am
That the only girls clothes that work for me

               C
Turn out to be boyfriend jeans

Refrain:

               Em
Well that’s fine

              A7
Cause I decline

     C                                 G
A narrow set of rules that just don’t work

                   Em
Cause these red lines

              A7
They’re not mine


       C                              G
And if you need me you can find me ironing my shirt

Pre Chorus:

G                        Bm
Cause I’m in black tie tonight

                   Em
Get a postcard to my

          C                    G
Year 11 self in her year 11 hell

                               Bm
Saying everything’s gonna be alright

Em                           C
No you won’t grow out of it you will find the clothes that fit

Chorus:

G                           D
And the images that fucked ya

                           Em
Were a patriarchal structure

                          C
And you never will surrender

                         G
To a narrow view of gender

                             D
And I swear there’ll come a day

                                A7
When you won’t worry what they say

                        C
On the labels, on the doors

                           G
You will figure out what’s yours


Em C G Em C

Verse 2:

 D                G
And it’s a bloody nightmare

       D                               A7
Tryna fight the spread of bigotry and fear

      C                                    G
That’s uniting Piers Morg-an and Ger-maine Greer

And all our progress

       D
Yeah I wonder who it’s for

       A7
When I dared to utter that trans lives matter

C
Yeah and all I got was a TERF war.


Refrain:

A7             Em
Well that’s fine

             A7
Cause I decline

C                                   G
Your narrow set of rules they just don’t work

             Em
These red lines

            A7
They’re not mine

     C
And if you need me you can find me ironing my shirt


Pre Chorus:

G                        Bm
Cause I’m in black tie tonight

                   Em
Get a postcard to my

          C                    G
Year 11 self in her year 11 hell

                               Bm
Saying everything’s gonna be alright

Em                           C
No you won’t grow out of it you will find the clothes that fit

Chorus:

G                           D
And the images that fucked ya

                           Em
Were a patriarchal structure

                          C
And you never will surrender

                         G
To a narrow view of gender

                             D
And I swear there’ll come a day

                                A7
When you won’t worry what they say

                        C
On the labels, on the doors

                           G
You will figure out what’s yours

               D            A7
You will figure out what’s yours

C
And that it’s got

Gm          Em                         A7
Nothing to do with fitting neatly in a box

         C
That was constructed to make it seem

 Bm
Like people come in just two teams

Em                               G
And anything that’s in between ain’t good enough

D             C
And you will love

                G
And you’ll be loved


Pre Chorus:

G                             Bm
And you’re  in black tie tonight

                    Em
Get a postcard to my

          C                     G
Year 11 self in her year 11 hell

                                Bm
Darling everything’s gonna be alright

Em                           C
No you won’t grow out of it you will find the clothes that fit


Final Chorus:

G                          D
And the images that fucked ya

                           Em
Were a patriarchal structure

                           C
No you never will surrender

                        G
To that narrow view of gender

                                  D
And there’s folks you’ve yet to meet

But you’re exactly up their street

A7                         C
And they’ve been waiting just as long

                            G
To hear someone sing this song

                              D
And better days are on their way

                                Em
When it won’t matter what they say

                          C
On the labels, on the doors

                             G
You will figure out what’s yours

Em

C    D                        Em
And girl you’re gonna be so happy

C    D                        G
And girl you’re gonna be just fine

C    D                        Em
And girl you’re gonna be so happy



Em
Down the line

C
Down the line



D7 G Em C G Em
(repeat to fade)