Ex-girl Collection

{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
[G]Fourth [Bm]floor [Em]room

Each girl I've brought back [Am]home [Bm]to [C]bloom

All fold on [Bm]close inspection

[G]Each [Bm]one l[Em]eaves a banner hanging [Am]from [Bm]the [C]eaves

Marking the eve of el[Bm]ection

Ex-girl co[D]llection

[Am]Why[Bm]/  [C]  into why [G]not

Into what else you [E]got?

It's just how men mark [Am]time[Bm]    [C]       [Bm]

[G]       [Bm]      [Em]      [Am]      [Bm]      [C]       [Bm]

[G]       [Bm]      [Em]      [Am]      [Bm]      [C]       [Bm]

[G]Ann [Bm]slams [Em]in

Another lightening [Am]round [Bm]begi[C]ns

This could get i[Bm]nteresting

[G]Where's [Bm]Ann [Em]been?

She pours herself a [Am]don't-[Bm]ask [C]gin

No ice and light on the [Bm]bitters [D]

I'm done with quitters

[Am]'Wh[Bm]y /[C] Charles, I found [G]out

Wipe that smile off your [E]mouth

I think it's tell-me [Am]tim[Bm]e..[C].'

[G]Britt [Bm]hit [Em]hard

She found my box of [Am]Beth's [Bm]best [C]cards

Hand cut and [Bm]signed with 'x's

[G]Called [Bm]at [Em]work

'Happy anni[Am]vers[Bm]ary, [C]jerk'

And I just laughed at the [Bm]timing [D]with you on hold line 2 still crying

[Am]'Wh[Bm]y /[C] play sex on the [G]cuff?

Does Beth like it [E]rough?

And learn your dirty [Am]lin[Bm]es?[C]

And keep her hair [G]cropped

(The other shoe [E]dropped)

'Is this how men mark [Am]tim[Bm]e  [C]/ in couples?', she [G]cursed

(This sounds too re[E]hearsed)

As [Am]Ann, hand on hip, accusing me to the [C]rafters [G]

The [Am]words turn and spit and scorch right through to the [C]plaster [G]

I'm called 10 kinds of a [D]bastard

Curses came faster

[G]Ann [Bm]stands [Em]down

I think she thinks [some[Am]thi[Bm]ng][C]  [Bm]

[G]Ann [[Bm]som[Em]ething]

[Am][somethi[Bm]ng]     [C]             [Bm]                     [D]

[Am]Why[Bm] / [C]into why n[G]ot?

Into charles gone to [E]pot

In hotter water

[Am]Lin[Bm]e/ [C] up to lift up a [G]toast

To the ones I hurt [E]most

And how the well's gone [Am]lim[Bm]e  [C]

With charles on the [G]plow

I'm roger over and [E]how

Slower now men mark [Am]tim[Bm]e  [C]

[Am]Fin[Bm]e  [C]

[Am]Why[Bm], /[C] what else you got?

[G Bm Em Am Bm C Bm x several times--you can pick out
the lead in the verse chords and sound sort of right]