Ex-girl Collection

Chords

Standard

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

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?