Calgary Girls Acoustic chords by The Smith Street Band

Chords with lyrics

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Calgary Girls (acoustic) from "Throw Me In The River" album (2014)

I figured this out off this YouTube recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7bMs4Kqlvw&spfreload=10
Watch it to get the strumming down.

Lyrics may be off in places but I think I got 99% of them.

Chord Shapes:

G1.......[3 X 0 0 3 3]  <-- Wil mutes the A augmentedA with his thumb while fretting the E MajorE
G2.......[3 X 0 0 3 2]
G3.......[3 X 0 0 3 5]
Cadd9....[0 3 2 0 3 3]
D........[X 0 0 2 3 2]
G........[3 2 0 0 3 3]
Em.......[0 2 2 0 3 3]
D*.......[2 0 0 2 3 3]

Intro: G1 G2 G3 Cadd9Cadd9 x2


G1          G2    G3
In dark corners and bars and ballrooms
G1          G2    G3
Boys get childish and grow up too soon
Cadd9Cadd9
I sit and stare at the Calgary girls
Cadd9Cadd9
Pretty hair and their mummys? pearls on
G1         G2     G3
Till the fear wells up and hits me
G1         G2     G3
Send letters to a comfortable history
Cadd9Cadd9
I used to have it all
Cadd9Cadd9            D MajorD
Now my head falls hard and alone
       Cadd9Cadd9
Onto a motel pillow


   G+G
And I know there?s a script that I could rehearse
   E minorEm
And there are lines and I could make them work
   Cadd9Cadd9
But I don?t want them, I want you
   G+G
And it?s not like there?s a space that I need to fill
   E minorEm
Or like I have any time we could kill
   Cadd9Cadd9
But I don?t need this, I need you
       D MajorD          Cadd9Cadd9
And this is the exact thing that I always do

G1 G2 G3 Cadd9Cadd9


G1          G2    G3
We used to lie right here and speak
G1          G2    G3
We were fucking great between these sheets
Cadd9Cadd9
That you bought to replace the old ones she left when she needed her own space
G1       G2    G3
And I took the hand-me-downs
G1         G2    G3
And I flipped the covers inside out
Cadd9Cadd9
And I?ll pretend that I?m different now

G1          G2    G3
And the first time we made love
G1          G2    G3
It was dark and we were drunk
Cadd9Cadd9
In someone else?s, someone else?s hostel bathroom
G1          G2   G3
And you turned your back to me
G1                 G2    G3
And I said ?If this is the first of many then turn
Cadd9Cadd9             D MajorD
back around, so I can fucking kiss you.?

   G+G
And I know there?s a script that I could rehearse
   E minorEm
And there are lines and I could make them work
   Cadd9Cadd9
But I don?t want them, I want you
   G+G
And it?s not like there?s a space that I need to fill
   E minorEm
Or like I have any time we could kill
   Cadd9Cadd9
But I don?t need this, I need you
       D MajorD          Cadd9Cadd9
And this is the exact thing that I always do

E minorEm        D*
And if you see me again
G+G         Cadd9Cadd9
Holding up some dive bar?s end
E minorEm        D*
With the whiskey sat far too naturally
G+G      Cadd9Cadd9
between my legs
E minorEm          D*
Will you saunter over smokily and
G+G         Cadd9Cadd9
tell me about your family
E minorEm         D*
And I?ll tell you you were right
G+G         Cadd9Cadd9
When you said I?d end up lonely
E minorEm         D*
And I?ll tell you that my life
G+G         Cadd9Cadd9
didn?t crack up to what our life would?ve been
E minorEm         D*
And I?ll stand up to say something
G+G
And fall straight back in my seat
E minorEm                     D*               G+G  Cadd9Cadd9
And you?ll check your watch and say ?It?s probably time for you to leave.?
E minorEm                     D*               G+G  Cadd9Cadd9
And I?ll stand up to say something brave and grand, fall straight back in my seat
E minorEm                     D*               G+G  Cadd9Cadd9
You will check your watch and say ?It?s probably time for you to leave.?
       D MajorD
And you will offer me a ride
    Cadd9Cadd9          D MajorD
Only cos it?s so fucking cold outside
Cadd9Cadd9 [cut off and then build] Cadd9Cadd9
You were always far too kind

   G+G
And I know there?s a script that I could rehearse
   E minorEm
And there are lines and I could make them work
   Cadd9Cadd9           D MajorD
But I don?t want them, I want you
   G+G
And it?s not like there?s a space that I need to fill
   E minorEm
Or like I have any time we could kill
   Cadd9Cadd9
But I don?t need this, I fucking need you
       D MajorD          Cadd9Cadd9    G+G
And this is the exact thing that I always do

THANKS GUYS, It's my first tab so feel free to correct and comment, Smith Street forever <3

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