As Cool As I Am chords by Dar Williams

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

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C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm FF x2 C majorC
      G/BG/B      A minorAm       FF         C majorC
Yea, there was a time I didn't like the love, I liked the climbers,
     G/BG/B         A minorAm       FF       A minorAm -
I was no brother then, I was running out of time and one liners,
  C majorC       G/BG/B           A minorAm      FF         C majorC
And I was afraid, like you are when you're too young to know the time, and
    G/BG/B        A minorAm         FF      C majorC
So I watched the way you take your fear and hoard the horizon,
        G/BG/B       A minorAm     FF        A minorAm -
You point, you have a word for every woman you can lay your eyes on,
     G+G                   E minorEm
Like you own them just because you bought the time,
     FF              NC
And you turn to me, you say you hope I'm not threatened,

  C majorC       G+G          C majorC         G/BG/B     A minorAm  FF
Oh, I'm not that petty, as cool as I am, I thought you'd know this already,
      C majorC  G/BG/B   A minorAm  FF      C majorC   FF   (C majorC G/BG/B  A minorAm FF) x2
I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women.

C majorC      G/BG/B       A minorAm       FF        C majorC
So now we're at a club, you watch the woman dancing, she is drunk,
    G/BG/B        A minorAm      FF        A minorAm -
She is smiling and she's falling in a slow, descending funk,
   C majorC        G/BG/B         A minorAm     FF     C majorC
And the whole bar is loud and proud and everybody's trying, yeah.
       G/BG/B       A minorAm       FF         C majorC
You play the artist, saying, "Is it how she moves, or how she looks?"
       G/BG/B     A minorAm       FF         A minorAm -
I say, it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks,
     G+G               E minorEm
And as long as she's got noise, she's fine.
  FF                         NC
But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended,

  C majorC         G+G          C majorC         G/BG/B     A minorAm  FF
Oh, and that's not petty, as cool as I am, I thought you'd know this already,
      C majorC  G/BG/B   A minorAm  FF      C majorC   FF   (C majorC G/BG/B  A minorAm FF) x2
I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women.

       C majorC    G/BG/B    A minorAm    FF       C majorC   G/BG/B     A minorAm   FF
You tried to make me doubt, to make me guess, tried to make me feel like a little less,
    C majorC     G/BG/B    A minorAm    FF     C majorC     G/BG/B   A minorAm   FF
Oh, I like'd you when your soul was bared, I thought you knew how to be scared,
        G+G               E minorEm
And now it's amazing what you did to make me stay,
   FF
But truth is just like time, it catches up and it just keeps going,

C majorC      G/BG/B       A minorAm        FF         C majorC
And so I'm leaving, you can find out how much better things can get,
      G/BG/B       A minorAm      FF            A minorAm -
And if it helps, I'd say I feel a little worse than I did when we met,
   C majorC      G/BG/B         A minorAm          FF       C majorC
So when you find someone else, you can try again, it might work next time,
       G/BG/B       A minorAm       FF           C majorC
You look out of the kitchen window and you shake your head and say low,
       G/BG/B     A minorAm     FF          A minorAm -
"If I could believe that stuff, I'd say that woman has a halo,"
    G+G                   E minorEm
And I look out and say, "Yeah, she's really blonde,"
   FF                  NC
And then I go outside to join the others, I am the others,

  C majorC         G+G          C majorC         G/BG/B     A minorAm  FF
Oh, and that's not easy, I don't know what you saw, I want somebody who sees me,
      C majorC  G/BG/B   A minorAm  FF      C majorC   FF   (C majorC G/BG/B  A minorAm FF) x2 C majorC
I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women.