I Want To Be Your Girlfrien Chords

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I Want To Be Your Girlfrien by Carpenter Mary Chapin is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords Ab, B, E, A, F#, E7, F#m, C# and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			I want to be your Girlfriend     Mary Chapin Carpenter 
 
Use the A chord form for the slide  
start it out on the 2nd fret slide down to the 1st fret 
slide it back to the 2nd fret then to the 4th fret.  Try 
not to strum the top string while doing this. That will  
complete the A slide Ab slide A slide B 
 
Intro chords   E A B  E A B  E A B  E  A slide Ab slide A slide B 
Intro notes  listen to record for timing 
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5-5-4-2-0-2-0------5-5-4-2-0-2-4----5-5-4-2-0-2-0--- 
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E                   A    B    E                  A    B 
I want to be your girlfriend  I want to be your new love 
E                 A    B   E         A slide Ab slide  A     B 
I want to be the one that you can't get      e-      nough  of 
E                   A    B     E             A    B 
I want to be your girlfriend, nobody else's but yours 
E                 A   B    E       A slide Ab slide A slide B 
I want to be the one who you'll do an-     y      thing    for 
 
     E                 B        E        B          E 
1.) Never thought I'd ever wind up in a daze like this 
E                  B           E              B       E 
Never thought I'd ever find myself wondering how you kiss 
   B               E             F#         B 
I see you nearly everyday, and everyday I lose my nerve 
  B                   E            F#              B 
That I built up the night before rehersing every single word 
 
     E             B               E               B        E 
2.) You use to be just this guy I knew from that same old scene 
E            B                    E                 B  E 
For all the time that I've known you, just now I'm noticing 
        B              E            F#                     B 
That everything there is to feel, feels worse than any teenage crush 
     B                  E                   F#              B 
And all the times that I've been near you, now I can't get near enough 
   E                   A   B        E            A    B 
Oh I want to be your girlfriend, nobody else's but yours 
E                 A   B    E        A slide Ab slide A slide  B 
I want to be the one who you'll do an-      y     thing       for 
 
A                 Ab                         E7                                  
I just keep hoping    that you're gonna see 
                       F# 
If I could notice you then you could notice me 
F#m 
Then I'd be more to you, oh I just wanna be 
F#                 B    C#   F#                 B   C# 
I want to be your girlfriend I want to be your new love 
F#             B   C#   F#        B slide Bb slide B slide C# 
I want to the one that you can't get      e-      nough    of 
F#                  B   C#   F#             B   C# 
I want to be your girlfriend Nobody else's but yours 
F#                B   C#   F#      B slide Bb slide B slide C# 
I want to be the one who you'll do an-     y      thing     for 
 
ENDING NOTES: 
 
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Then bounce the following two chords. 
To sound like the record barre these chords. 
Use the the Bb form.  E is this form on the 7th fret. 
F# is this form on the 9th fret. 
 
Diagram of the Bb form. 
| represent the empty string and 0 is where you place your fingers. 
 
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ENDING CHORDS:  E  F#   E F#  E F#  E F# 
 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante