The Wrens - Ex-Girl Collection

      
 
 The Wrens
 Ex-Girl Collection
 From: The Meadowlands (2003)
 Lyrics from http://www.wrens.com/albums-mealyr.html#exgirl
 
 (Note: like most Wrens' songs, there's too much going on to
 accurately reflect it in one guitar part, but you should be
 able to play along with this. Sorry about the lyrics in the
 last verse; I'm too lazy to figure them out. Send any
 corrections to bworlow@yahoo.com)
 
 G      Bm    Em  
 Fourth floor room
 
                             Am   Bm C    
 Each girl I've brought back home to bloom
 
             Bm              
 All fold on close inspection
 
 G    Bm   Em                     Am   Bm  C    
 Each one leaves a banner hanging from the eaves
 
                      Bm    
 Marking the eve of election
 
           D       
 Ex-girl collection
 
 Am Bm C         G  
 Why/  into why not
 
                    E   
 Into what else you got?
 
                        Am  Bm C Bm 
 It's just how men mark time 
 
 G Bm Em Am Bm C Bm 
      
 G Bm Em Am Bm C Bm 
      
 G   Bm    Em 
 Ann slams in
 
                    Am    Bm  C 
 Another lightening round begins
 
                 Bm        
 This could get interesting
 
 G       Bm  Em   
 Where's Ann been?
 
                     Am    Bm  C  
 She pours herself a don't-ask gin
 
                         Bm     D 
 No ice and light on the bitters
 
 I'm done with quitters
 
 Am Bm C                 G  
 'Why / Charles, I found out
 
                          E    
 Wipe that smile off your mouth
 
                      Am Bm C 
 I think it's tell-me time...'
 
 G     Bm  Em  
 Britt hit hard
 
                     Am     Bm   C    
 She found my box of Beth's best cards
 
              Bm              
 Hand cut and signed with 'x's
 
 G      Bm Em  
 Called at work
 
            Am  Bm   C    
 'Happy anniversary, jerk'
 
                           Bm     D                                   
 And I just laughed at the timing with you on hold line 2 still crying
 
 Am Bm C                G    
 'Why / play sex on the cuff?
 
                   E     
 Does Beth like it rough?
 
                      Am Bm C 
 And learn your dirty lines?
 
                   G      
 And keep her hair cropped
 
                 E       
 (The other shoe dropped)
 
                       Am Bm C                   G     
 'Is this how men mark time / in couples?', she cursed
 
                    E       
 (This sounds too rehearsed)
 
    Am                                   C      G 
 As Ann, hand on hip, accusing me to the rafters
 
     Am                                                  C      G 
 The words turn and spit and scorch right through to the plaster
 
                          D      
 I'm called 10 kinds of a bastard
 
 Curses came faster
 
 G   Bm     Em  
 Ann stands down
 
                         Am Bm C Bm 
 I think she thinks (something)
 
 G    Bm Em     
 Ann (something)
 
 Am      Bm C Bm D 
 (something)
 
 Am Bm C         G  
 Why / into why not?
 
                      E  
 Into charles gone to pot
 
 In hotter water
 
 Am Bm C                G    
 Line/  up to lift up a toast
 
                    E   
 To the ones I hurt most
 
                         Am Bm C 
 And how the well's gone lime
 
                     G   
 With charles on the plow
 
                    E  
 I'm roger over and how
 
                     Am Bm C 
 Slower now men mark time
 
 Am Bm C 
 Fine
 
 Am Bm C                  
 Why, / 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)