3 Dressed Up As A 9
Trooper
From the LP "Flying Colors"
Written by Smith & MGuire
MCA Records 1979
Transcribed by Dan Nicholas
nicholdb@istar.ca


Intro... F#  E  D  A      F#  E  D  A     (Use barre chords on the 9, 7 & 5th
                                            frets... double bar the 5th for D)


F#                            E
Hey wait a minute who do you think you are?
       D                                     A
Coming on coming on like you're some kind of movie star
         F#                      E
Wearing twelve hundred dollars, decollette     (...pronounced  dee-call-e-tay)
              D                              A
You looked a whole lot better to me from 20 feet away




                    F#                     E
Cho...You're just a three dressed up as a nine
                   B          A
      You're only wasting my time
       F#                      E
      A three dressed up as a nine
          F#             E
      Hey hey    hey hey hey
          F#             E
      Hey hey    hey hey hey



    F#                     E
And socially, you know you fit in just right
    D                            A
But as for me, I'm gonna have to pass tonight
             F#                               E
Well you can say what you like;  be what you wanna be
        D                                 A
You can suit yourself baby but you can't suit me



Cho....

Break....   F#  E     F#  E     F#  E     F#  E


repeat first verse....
repeat last 2 lines of 2nd verse


F#                 E
Hey wait a minute  hey wait a minute
F#                 E
Hey wait a minute who do you think you are?
F#                                     E
You're nothin' but a 3 dressed up as a 9

Dan Nicholas
Heldan Enterprises
http://home.istar.ca/~nicholdb