It Takes A Young Girl chords by Jesse Winchester

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

It Takes A Young Girl Key of E--3/4 tempo:

Words and Music by Jesse Winchester

Ben Rushing, Jr.

Chords:


Esus: (notes)    | E B E A B e |
Esus: (fingering)| 0-2-2-2-0-0 |

G#7 : (notes)    | G# D# F# C D# G#|
      (fingering)| 4  6  4  5 4  4 |(barred)

C#m : (notes)    | X C# G# C# E G# |
      (fingering)| X 4  6  6  5 4  |(barred)

In playing this song, I generally use a
finger picked pattern like p i m a m i



E
It takes a young girl to make an

 B7       E      Esus
old man  smile.

  E
It takes a young girl to make an

G#7       A
old man fly.


CHORUS:

 A             B7
Why should it take always a

 E     C#m    A
young girl to move this

    B7        E     B7
old heart of mine.


                 E
It would take an old man too

B7         E     Esus
long to explain.

 E
How a young girl plays

 G#7         A
an  old, old game. But that's just

       B7               E
how it is first she's yours and then

       C#m
she's  his and that's always,

B7          E     B7
always the same.


           E       B7
It's been ten long years since

      E                E
I've cried. It's been five, I know

G#7                   A
five since I've even tried.

   A               B7
Now why should it take always a

E      A       E
young girl to move this old

 B7       E
heart of mine. But. . .


CHORUS:

 A             B7
Why should it take always a

 E     C#m    A
young girl to move this

    B7        E     B7
old heart of mine.