SHE CAME ALONG TO ME
MERMAID AVENUE- 1998
WORDS: Woody Guthrie - 1942 MUSIC: Billy Bragg/Jeff Tweedy/Jay Bennett - 1998

Notes: Capo at second fret.

Chords:

Intro:

C  D  C Cmaj9 D
C  D  G

Verse

G           Am            C              G
Ten hundred books could I write you about her
C        G
Because I felt if I could know her
G            C   D   Dsus4?
I could know all women
            G                     Am
And they've not been any too well known
               C                      Em
for brains and planning and organized thinking
                 C
But I'm sure the women are equal
         D                   G  C G
and they may be ahead of the men
 

G                                   Am
Yet I wouldn't spread such a rumour around
            C            G
because one organizes the other
C        G
And some times the most lost and wasted
            C                 D Dsus4?
attract the most balanced and sane
        G        Am
And the wild and reckless take up
         C               Em
with the clocked and the timed
        C
And the mixture is all of us
    D             G    C G
and we're still mixing
 

Chorus
  C        Cmaj9  Am
But never, never, never,
                         G
Never could have it been done
       C                             D
If the women hadn't entered into the deal
         C    B*    A* G
Like she came along to me

* play individual notes on A string. I hit the A note as I am about to strike the G chord
  Not sure if this is right but it sounds Okay.

Guitar Fill

C D C Cmaj9 D
C D G C G (not sure about this last part)

Verse (same chords as in first verse)

And all creeds and kinds and colors
of us are bleeding
Till I suppose ten millions years from now
we'll all be just alike
Same color, same size, working together
And maybe we'll have all the fascists
out of the way by then
Maybe so

Chorus
  C        Cmaj9  Am
But never, never, never,
                         G
Never could have it been done
       C                             D
If the women hadn't entered into the deal
         C    B*    A* G
Like she came along to me

* play individual notes on A string. I hit the A note as I am about to strike the G chord
  Not sure if this is right but it sounds Okay.

End - fade out

C D C Cmaj9 D
C D G C G (not sure about this last part)
C D C Cmaj9 D
C D G C G (not sure about this last part)