Homely Girl Chords
by UB40
Homely Girl by UB40 is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, F, D, Em, C, Bm and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro G F G F G F G
G
It must have broke your poor little heart
G D
When the boys used to say "You look better in the dark"
D
But now they'd give up all they learn't in school
D G
To be somewhere in the dark with you
G
Oh homely girl
G
The teacher would ask the question
G D
And you, would always raise your hand
D
But somehow you never got your chance
D G
My eyes would fill with water inside I'd burn
G
Oh yes I would
D
Homely girl, you used to be so lonely
D G
You're a beautiful Woman
G
Oh yes you are
D
Homely girl, you used to be so lonely
D G
You're a beautiful Woman
G
Oh homely girl
G
There was a boy who used to sit beside you
G D
Who'd like to hold that place his whole life through
D
Oh you were beautiful to me
D G
You had a heart no-one could ever see
G
Oh yes you did
D
Homely girl, you used to be so lonely
D G
You're a beautiful Woman
G
Oh homely girl
Em D
I was the only one who offered to carry your books
Em D
Took all the stares and laughter and the dirty looks
C Bm G
'Cause I saw then what they see now (They all wanna ask you for a dance)
Am D
They don't know how they don't know how
Instrumental
G F G
D
Homely girl, you used to be so lonely
D G
You're a beautiful Woman
G
Oh homely girl
D
Homely girl, you used to be so lonely
D G
You're a beautiful Woman
G
Oh homely girl
D
Aha, you used to be so lonely
D G
You're a beautiful Woman
G
Oh homely girl
D
Aha, you used to be so lonely
D G
You're a beautiful Woman
G
Oh homely girl
D
Homely girl, you used to be so lonely
D G
You're a beautiful Woman
G
Oh homely girl
Repeat to fade
This was my first ever tab.
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