HESITATING BEAUTY
MERMAID AVENUE - 1998
WORDS Woody Guthrie - 1949  MUSIC:  Jeff Tweedy - 1997

Notes: Capo on 5th fret . Only three chords that I can hear G C D. I will add the fills when I have time to tab them.

Chords:

Verse
G
For your sparkling cocky smile
       C                D
I have walked a million miles
G                                C      G
Begging you to come wed me in the Spring
G
Why do you my dear delay,
     C                        D
what makes you laugh and turn away?
G                   D            G
You're a hesitating beauty, Nora Lee

Chorus
G                                       C             G
Well I know that you are itching to get married, Nora Lee
G                                       C             D
And I know that am twitching for the same thing, Nora Lee
G
By the stars and clouds above,
C                         D
we can spend our lives in love
G                   D            G
You're a hesitating beauty, Nora Lee

Verse
G
We can build a house and home
          C               D
where the flowers come to bloom
G                                   C    G
Around our yard I'll nail a fence so high
G
That the boys with peeping eyes
       C              D
cannot see that angel face
G                D            G
Of my hesitating beauty, Nora Lee

Chorus
G                                       C             G
Well I know that you are itching to get married, Nora Lee
G                                       C             D
And I know that am twitching for the same thing, Nora Lee
G
By the stars and clouds above,
C                         D
we can spend our lives in love
G                   D            G
You're a hesitating beauty, Nora Lee

Verse
G
We can ramble hand in hand
            C             D
across the grasses of our land
G                                   C     G
I'll kiss you for each leaf on every tree
G
We can bring our kids to play
          C              D
where the dry winds blow today
G                         D          G
If you'll quit your hesitating, Nora Lee

Chorus
G                                       C             G
Well I know that you are itching to get married, Nora Lee
G                                       C             D   Notes C B A
And I know that am twitching for the same thing, Nora Lee
G
By the stars and clouds above,
C                         D
we can spend our lives in love
G                   D            G
You're a hesitating beauty, Nora Lee