Crazy Mixed-up Kid chords by The Smithereens

Chords with lyrics

Crazy Mixed-Up Kid
The Smithereens
Especially For You 1986:

Standard tuning; CD is downtuned one half step to Eb MajorEb
A augmentedA  x02220
G+G  320003
E MajorE  022100
D MajorD  xx0232
F# minorF#m 244222
FF  133211

INTRO:

GTR-1 plays A augmentedA — G, A augmentedA — G+G
GTR-2 plays Riff 1:

  A augmentedA    G+G     A augmentedA    G+G
e|--0-0--0-0-0-0-0-----0-0--0-0-0-0-0---| Riff 1
BB|--3/5--3-2-3-2-3-----3/5--3-2-3-2-3---|
G+G|--------------------------------------| play twice for intro
D MajorD|--------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------------|

Verse 1:
A augmentedA          D MajorD     E MajorE     A augmentedA  D MajorD E MajorE
My friends tell me she’ll be back some day.
A augmentedA         D MajorD    E MajorE  A augmentedA     D MajorD E MajorE
Until then, I'll have to find a way.
D MajorD       E MajorE      A augmentedA        F# minorF#m
I've tried so very hard to be someone she'd fall in love with.
D MajorD     E MajorE         A augmentedA         F# minorF#m
I cry my eyes out. She's no good, it's true, and now I know it.
D MajorD          E MajorE        A augmentedA   G+G   A augmentedA   G+G   (with riff 1)
I guess she's just a crazy, mixed-up kid.


Verse 2:
A augmentedA      D MajorD     E MajorE  A augmentedA       D MajorD E MajorE
Everybody says she'll come around.
A augmentedA          D MajorD   E MajorE    A augmentedA    D MajorD E MajorE
Until she does, you know I won't be found.
D MajorD        E MajorE     A augmentedA        F# minorF#m
I've tried so very hard to be someone she'd fall in love with.
D MajorD     E MajorE         A augmentedA         F# minorF#m
I cry my eyes out. She's no good, it's true, and now I know it.
D MajorD           E MajorE        A augmentedA   G+G   A augmentedA   G+G   (with riff 1)
I guess she's just a crazy, mixed-up kid.

BRIDGE:
G+G      E MajorE      G+G      E MajorE
  I won't compromise. I won't look in her eyes.
FF      D MajorD        FF          D MajorD
  It seems unfair.   That girls like her don't even care.


Verse 3:
A augmentedA          D MajorD    E MajorE     A augmentedA  D MajorD E MajorE
My friends tell me she’ll be back some day.
A augmentedA         D MajorD   E MajorE   A augmentedA    D MajorD E MajorE
Until then, I'll have to find a way.
D MajorD        E MajorE     A augmentedA        F# minorF#m
I've tried so very hard to be someone she'd fall in love with.
D MajorD       E MajorE        A augmentedA       F# minorF#m
It hurts to love a girl when she don't even wanna know you.
D MajorD           E MajorE        A augmentedA   G+G   A augmentedA   G+G  (with riff 1)
I guess she's just a crazy, mixed-up kid.


A augmentedA     G+G     (with Riff 1)
Mixed-up kid.
Mixed-up kid.   (repeat and fade)