QUITTIN` TIME
(by Robb Royer & Roger Linn;
performed by Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
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Okay, a couple notes about this song. First of all, the electric guitar
plays this song in D, and Mary-Chapin plays the acoustic guitar in C, capoed
up two frets (as I`ve written it here).
Don`t worry too much about the bass notes in the chorus; they were just
so obvious I had to put them in.
The little riff at the end of the C Fmaj7 G G lines (after tell me what
we`re gonna do) is just Gsus4-Gsus4-G, Gsus4-Gsus4-G. Finger G as 320003,
and use your index finger to do the first fret on the B string. (Of course,
it`s Asus4-Asus4-A if you play it in D.)
Each chord is half a measure. Capo 2.
One more thing: in her 1994 Acoustic Tour, MCC performed a slowed-down
version of this song. The chords were pretty much the same, but it was
finger-picked instead of strummed, and there was an E or E7 chord between
the G and Am, right before But you pretend... Try it.
C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G
[intro]
C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G
Hey baby, tell me what we`re gonna do
C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G
It`s getting crazy and I need some help from you
C C F F G G G G
We were so connected that you were a part of me
C C F F G G G G
Now I feel an emptiness right to the heart of me
Am G/B C C F C/E G G
But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine
Am G/B C F
And though we should be at an end
Am F (2/4) G
It`s so hard admittin` when it`s quittin` time
(4/4) C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G
[instrumental]
Hey baby, I`m running out of things to say (C C FM7 FM7 G G G G)
Please don`t hate me, this feeling just won`t go away (C C FM7 FM7 G G G G)
Now we`re spending all our time caught in a fantasy (C C F F G G G G)
Just trying to keep in mind the way it used to be (C C F F G G G G)
[Chorus]
[Guitar solo, same chords as chorus]
[Repeat second verse]
But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine (Am G C C F C G G)
And though we should be at an end (Am G C F)
It`s so hard admittin` when it`s quittin` time (Am F G C)
But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine (Am G C C F C G G)
And though we should be at an end (Am G C F)
It`s so hard admittin` when it`s quittin`... (Am F G)
(So hard admittin` when it`s quittin`...) (Am F G)
So hard admittin` when it`s quittin` time (Am F G C)
- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com
