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Pretty Forever by The National
Pretty Forever
D5: x 5 7 7 x x F5: x 8 10 10 x x G5: x 10 12 12 x x
D5 x2
D5, F5, G5 x2
D5
What would she do?
F5 G5
If she could kick time?
D5
Would she go back?
F5 G5
Her arms were mine
D5 F5
Would you go back to four weeks ago?
G5
And tell her everything
D5 F5 G5
Whoever everything
D5
How could she pick
F5
And how could she say
G5 D5
She's already made too many mistakes
F5
She's first at the walls, little baby ones
G5 C F
She'd try to cage it if she weren't too smart for that
C F
If she weren't too smart for that
C Am
She wants be happy forever
G F
She just wants to be high
C Am
She wants to be pretty forever
G F
She just wants to be tied
D5 x2
D5 F5
She'd be your mother if she had a choice
G5 D5
She'd make more money if she were a boy
F5
We put her away, but she'd try it again
G5 C F
She'd try it again, and keep her mouth shut
C F
Yeah, she'd keep her... mouth shut
C, Am, G, F
C
What would we do?
Am
If it wouldn't matter
G
We'd still fall apart
F
One way or another
C
So would the city
Am
And so would the east
G
And so on
F
And so on
C Am
She wants be happy forever
G F
She just wants to be high
C Am
She wants to be pretty forever
G F C
She just wants to be tied, tied
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version 2
Sounds best with barre chords throughout, except for C chord in bridge
(she's too smart for that & keep her mouth shut) and C, Am and G chords
in chorus (she wants to be happy forever etc.)
D x2
Dm, G x2
Dm
What would she do?
G
If she could kick time?
Dm
Would she go back?
G
Her arms were mine
Dm G
Would you go back to four weeks ago?
And tell her everything
Dm G
Whoever everything
Dm
How could she pick
G
And how could she say
Dm
She's already made too many mistakes
G
She's first at the walls, little baby ones
C F
She'd try to cage it if she weren't too smart for that
C F
If she weren't too smart for that
C Am
She wants be happy forever
G F
She just wants to be high
C Am
She wants to be pretty forever
G F
She just wants to be tied
D x2
Dm G
She'd be your mother if she had a choice
Dm
She'd make more money if she were a boy
G
We put her away, but she'd try it again
C F
She'd try it again, and keep her mouth shut
C F
Yeah, she'd keep her... mouth shut
C, Am, G, F
C
What would we do?
Am
If it wouldn't matter
G
We'd still fall apart
F
One way or another
C
So would the city
Am
And so would the east
G
And so on
F
And so on
C Am
She wants be happy forever
G F
She just wants to be high
C Am
She wants to be pretty forever
G F
She just wants to be tied, tied
C
She wants to be
Am
She wants to be
G
She wants to be
F
Just wants to be tied, tied
C Am
Pretty forever
F
Pretty forever
G C
Pretty forever
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