But if Better If You Do
(Acoustic version from AT&T Blue Room)
Chords: Notes:
Am:002210 ():chord in bracket
D7/F#:200212 X2:Play only twice the chord in bracket
Fmaj7:003210 X1:Play only one time the chord in bracket
Dm:000231
C:032010
C/B:020010
Am D7/F# Fmaj7
Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret.
Am D7/F# Fmaj7
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name
Am
As she sheds her skin on stage
C D7/F# Fmaj7 Am
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.
D7/F#
The strip joint veteran sits two away
Fmaj7 Am Fmaj7 D7/F# Fmaj7
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime .... daiquiri
Am C D7/F#
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
C/B Fmaj7 Am
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Am C/B Fmaj7
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Am C D7/F#
Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
C/B Fmaj7 Am
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Am C/B Dm
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Am Fmaj7 D7/F#
oooooooooooooooooooh
(Am)X1 (D7/F#)X2
but I'm afraid that I
(Fmaj7)X1
Well, I may have faked it
Am Fmaj7
And I wouldn't be caught dead to dead to dead to dead in this place
Am
Well, I'm afraid that I
Fmaj7
Well, that's right, well I may have faked it
Am D7/F# Fmaj7
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
Am C D7/F#
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
C/B Fmaj7 Am
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
C/B D7/F# Dm
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Am C D7/F#
Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
Fmaj7 D7/F# Fmaj7
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
C/B Fmaj7
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Bridge:
Repeat this X4
Eb--------------- Eb------------- Eb-----------
Bb---1-1--------- Bb----1-1------ Bb-----1-1---
Gb---2-2--------- Play X2 Gb----2-2------ Play X1 Gb-----2-2--- PlayX1
Db-2------------- Db--0---------- Db--3--------
Ab--------------- Ab------------- Ab-----------
Eb--------------- Eb------------- Eb-----------
Play Rapidly like the song
Am X7 Am X7 D7/F# X7 Fmaj7 X7
Am D7/F#
Well, I'm afraid that I
Fmaj7
Well, I may have faked it
Am D7/F# Fmaj7
And I wouldn't be caught dead to dead to dead to dead in this place
Am D7/F#
Well, I'm afraid that I
Dm
Well, that's right, well I may have faked it
Am Dm (Hold)
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
Am C D7/F#
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
C/B Fmaj7 Am
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
C/B D7/F# Dm
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Am C D7/F#
Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
Fmaj7 D7/F# Fmaj7
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
C/B Fmaj7 Dm
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Dm
Praying for love and paying
Am D7/F# Fmaj7
Praying for love and paying in naivety, oh
