I want to be your Girlfriend Mary Chapin Carpenter
Use the A chord form for the slide
start it out on the 2nd fret slide down to the 1st fret
slide it back to the 2nd fret then to the 4th fret. Try
not to strum the top string while doing this. That will
complete the A slide Ab slide A slide B
Intro chords EABEABEABE A slide Ab slide A slide B
Intro notes listen to record for timing
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5-5-4-2-0-2-0------5-5-4-2-0-2-4----5-5-4-2-0-2-0---
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EABEAB
I want to be your girlfriend I want to be your new love
EABEA slide Ab slide AB
I want to be the one that you can't get e- nough of
EABEAB
I want to be your girlfriend, nobody else's but yours
EABE A slide Ab slide A slide B
I want to be the one who you'll do an- y thing for
EBEBE
1.) Never thought I'd ever wind up in a daze like this
EBEBE
Never thought I'd ever find myself wondering how you kiss
BEF#B
I see you nearly everyday, and everyday I lose my nerve
BEF#B
That I built up the night before rehersing every single word
EBEBE
2.) You use to be just this guy I knew from that same old scene
EBEBE
For all the time that I've known you, just now I'm noticing
BEF#B
That everything there is to feel, feels worse than any teenage crush
BEF#B
And all the times that I've been near you, now I can't get near enough
EABEAB
Oh I want to be your girlfriend, nobody else's but yours
EABE A slide Ab slide A slide B
I want to be the one who you'll do an- y thing for
AAbE7
I just keep hoping that you're gonna see
F#
If I could notice you then you could notice me
F#m
Then I'd be more to you, oh I just wanna be
F#BC#F#BC#
I want to be your girlfriend I want to be your new love
F#BC#F#B slide Bb slide B slide C#
I want to the one that you can't get e- nough of
F#BC#F#BC#
I want to be your girlfriend Nobody else's but yours
F#BC#F#B slide Bb slide B slide C#
I want to be the one who you'll do an- y thing for
ENDING NOTES:
Then bounce the following two chords.
To sound like the record barre these chords.
Use the the Bb form. E is this form on the 7th fret.
F# is this form on the 9th fret.
Diagram of the Bb form.
| represent the empty string and 0 is where you place your fingers.
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ENDING CHORDS: EF#EF#EF#EF#