Carpenter Mary Chapin

Carpenter Mary Chapin - Quittin Time guitar tab

QUITTIN' TIME

(by Robb Royer & Roger Linn;

performed by Mary-Chapin Carpenter)

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Okay, a couple notes about this song. First of all, the electric guitar

plays this song in D, and Mary-Chapin plays the acoustic guitar in C, capoed

up two frets (as I've written it here).

Don't worry too much about the bass notes in the chorus; they were just

so obvious I had to put them in.

The little riff at the end of the C Fmaj7 G G lines (after "tell me what

we're gonna do") is just Gsus4-Gsus4-G, Gsus4-Gsus4-G. Finger G as 320003,

and use your index finger to do the first fret on the B string. (Of course,

it's Asus4-Asus4-A if you play it in D.)

Each chord is half a measure. Capo 2.

One more thing: in her 1994 Acoustic Tour, MCC performed a slowed-down

version of this song. The chords were pretty much the same, but it was

finger-picked instead of strummed, and there was an E or E7 chord between

the G and Am, right before "But you pretend..." Try it.

C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G

[intro]

C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G

Hey baby, tell me what we're gonna do

C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G

It's getting crazy and I need some help from you

C C F F G G G G

We were so connected that you were a part of me

C C F F G G G G

Now I feel an emptiness right to the heart of me

Am G/B C C F C/E G G

But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine

Am G/B C F

And though we should be at an end

Am F (2/4) G

It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin' time

(4/4) C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G

[instrumental]

Hey baby, I'm running out of things to say (C C FM7 FM7 G G G G)

Please don't hate me, this feeling just won't go away (C C FM7 FM7 G G G G)

Now we're spending all our time caught in a fantasy (C C F F G G G G)

Just trying to keep in mind the way it used to be (C C F F G G G G)

[Chorus]

[Guitar solo, same chords as chorus]

[Repeat second verse]

But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine (Am G C C F C G G)

And though we should be at an end (Am G C F)

It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin' time (Am F G C)

But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine (Am G C C F C G G)

And though we should be at an end (Am G C F)

It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin'... (Am F G)

(So hard admittin' when it's quittin'...) (Am F G)

So hard admittin' when it's quittin' time (Am F G C)

- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com

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