The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker chords by Prince

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

[Intro]

A9/E A augmentedA+9/E E minorEm

Am9/E E7E7 E minor 7Em7 A9/E Am7/E B/E E minorEm


[Verse 1]

Am9/E        E7E7
  Dorothy was a waitress on the promenade

E minor 7Em7         A9/E
  She worked the night shift

Am7/E             B/E
  Dishwater blonde, tall and fine

     E minorEm
She got a lot of tips

[Verse 2]

     Am9/E           E7E7
Well, earlier I’d been talkin’ stuff in a violent room

E minor 7Em7           A9/E
  Fightin’ with lover’s past

Am7/E              B/E
I needed someone with a quicker wit than mine

      E minorEm
Dorothy was fast


[Verse 3]

 Am9/E          E7E7
Well, I ordered - "Yeah, let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain’t to hungry"

E minor 7Em7        A9/E
  Dorothy laughed

        Am7/E
She said - "It sound like a real man tome (you’re kinda cute)

       B/E          E minorEm
You’re kinda cute, you wanna take a bath?" (Do you wanna, do you wanna?) ... Bath?

[Verse 4]

       Am9/E          E7E7
Oh, I said - "Cool, but I’m leavin’ my pants on (What you say?)

    E minor 7Em7           A9/E
Cuz I’m kinda goin’ with someone"

      Am7/E            B/E
She said - "Sound like a real man to me

         E minorEm
Mind if I turn on the radio?"


[Bridge 1]

  G+G   G7G7   G+G
"Oh, my favorite song," she said

      G7G7  G+G     A minorAm G+G   G7G7  G+G
And it was Joni singing, "Help me, I think I’m falling"

       G7G7  G+G
(Drring) The phone rang and she said

  G7G7 G+G  G6G6   G+G      G7G7  G+G G6G6
"Whoev er’s calling can’t be as cute as you"

E minorEm
  Right then and there I knew I was through (Dorothy Parker was cool)


[Interlude]

A9/E Am9/E


[Verse 5]

  E minorEm
My pants were wet, they came off

But she didn’t see the movie cuz she hadn’t read the book first

Esus4Esus4 E/F E minorEm E/F E minorEm E/F E7sus4E7sus4

 Am9/E        E7E7
Instead she pretended she was blind

  E minor 7Em7                A9/E
An affliction brought on by a witch’s curse

    Am7/E
Dorothy made me laugh (ha ha, ha ha)

            B/E           E minorEm
I felt much better so I went back to the violent room

(Tell us what you did, what you did) Let me tell you what I did


[Bridge 2]

G+G         G7G7 G+G  Gsus4Gsus4 G+G    G7G7 G+G Gsus4Gsus4
  I took another bubble bath with my pants on

G+G     G7G7 G+G  Gsus4Gsus4
 All the fighting stopped

G+G       G7G7  G+G Am7Am7 Am11Am11 Am7Am7 Am11Am11
Next time I’ll do it sooner

      Am7Am7 Am11Am11  Am9b5  Am9Am9
This is the bal lad of Dorothy Parker


[Outro]

Am9/E E7E7 E minor 7Em7 A9/E Am7/E B/E E minorEm x2

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