17 Chords

The Dollyrots
17
Because I'm Awesome
2007
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@gmail.com
 
Key: Eb
 
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
 
Chords used:
Eb -   x68886
Bb -   x13331
Cm -   x35543
G# -   466544
Gm -   355333
Fm -   133111
Eb/G - 365xxx
 
 
Verse 1:
Eb
Don’t you think
you’re a bit too grey
Gm             G#
  Inviting her out for
  Bb     Eb
a coffee Enamored
 
by pictures you
     Gm
paint  Spontaneous
G#      Bb
lust so naïve
 
 
Refrain 1:
Cm
Making out
G#
  Strawberries and
skinny swimming
Eb
Keeps coming back
because she was
     Bb
young  And that’s
how you like
them to stay
 
 
Chorus 1:
Eb      Bb/D
Hold me hold me
Cm
Tell me I’m the
Bb   G#    Eb/G
only One I want
   G#     Bb
to 17 and lonely
Eb  Bb/D
  I want you
Cm  Bb
  I want you
G#    Eb/G G#
  All to myself
That’s what
   Bb
he told me
 
 
Verse 3:
Eb
Casual you ask her
       Gm
to play  Illusions
   G#      Bb
of romance burning
Eb
Innocent but still
           Gm
no mistakes  Cause
she smelled his
G#        Bb
last girl victim
 
 
Refrain 2:
 Cm         G#
Sneaking out  Heart
pounding her bare
feet racing
Eb
Dangerously close
to her last chance
Bb
  Cause he almost
got her to stay
 
 
Chorus 2:
Eb      Bb/D
Hold me hold me
Cm
Tell me I’m the
Bb   G#    Eb/G
only One I want
   G#     Bb
to 17 and lonely
Eb  Bb/D
  I want you
Cm  Bb
  I want you
G#    Eb/G G#
  All to myself
That’s what
   Bb
he told me
Eb      Bb/D
Hold me hold me
Cm
Tell me I’m the
Bb   G#    Eb/G
only One I want
   G#     Bb
to 17 and lonely
 
 
Bridge:
Eb Bb G#
17
           Eb Bb G# Bb
She’s just 17
 
 
Interlude:
Eb Bb/D Cm Bb G# Eb/G G# Bb x2
 
 
Verse 3:
   Eb
He knows what works
he put out the bait
Gm
  She bites again
G#   Bb
unsuspecting He’s
Eb
beautiful such
a worldly face
Gm
  She’s thinking
      G#     Bb
he’ll be her teacher
 
 
Refrain 3:
Cm         G#
Figured out  She’s
soft and she thinks
you’re worth it
Eb
Keeps coming back
each time more jaded
Bb
  We wonder what made
her that way We
wonder what made
her that way
 
 
Chorus 3:
Eb      Bb/D
Hold me hold me
Cm
Tell me I’m the
Bb   G#    Eb/G
only One I want
   G#     Bb
to 17 and lonely
Eb  Bb/D
  I want you
Cm  Bb
  I want you
G#    Eb/G G#
  All to myself
That’s what
   Bb
he told me
Eb      Bb/D
Hold me hold me
Cm
Tell me I’m the
Bb   G#    Eb/G
only One I want
   G#     Bb
to 17 and lonely
Eb  Bb/D
  I want you
Cm  Bb
  I want you
G#    Eb/G G#
  All to myself
That’s what
   Bb
he told me
Eb Bb G#(hold)
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