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Song title:       Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Original Album:	  Look Sharp

Words and Music by Joe Jackson
Copyright © 1978 A&M Records
Published by Universal Music Publishing Group

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 4/4. Guitar Figure 1 is the basis for the VERSEs and is repeated
there and elsewhere. I've shown chords in the VERSE text below, but you're
actually playing GF1. Get that and you've nailed the song!


INTRO:
Chords:
Dm7     x57565
Eb      x68886
F7sus4  x8 10 8 11 8


[play: 4/4| Dm7 | Eb | F7sus4 | % |]


LEAD IN to Guitar Figure 1.
Notes:
Play the Ebmaj7 as an arpeggio.


 Ebmaj7
|--10--8------8--|
|--8------11-----|
|--8-------------|
|--8-------------|
|----------------|
|----------------|



[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]      (| Bb F | Ab Eb |)*  [x2]

Guitar Figure 1

  Bb              F                 Ab              Eb
|-6-----------6---8-----------8---|-4-----------4---6---6---6---6---|
|-6-----------6---10----------10--|-4-----------4---8---8---8---8---|
|-7-----------7---10----------10--|-5-----------5---8---8---8---8---|
|-8-----------8---10----------10--|-6-----------6---8---8---8---8---|
|-8-----------8---8-----------8---|-6-----------6---6---6---6---6---|
|-6-----------6-------------------|-4-----------4-------------------|
|                                 |                                 |
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-8-----------8-------------------|-6-----------6-------------------|
|-----------------8-----------8---|-----------------6---6---6---6---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |




VERSE1:
Notes:
[]* Guitar Figure 1 is played at the end of the VERSE lines but I've
just indicated the chords you're playing.

Chords:
Bb  688766           Ab  466544
F   x8 10 10 10 8    Eb  x68886


| Bb       F       | Ab             Eb       [| Bb F | Ab Eb |]*
    Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street.

| Bb        F        | Ab               Eb        [| Bb F | Ab Eb |]*
    From my window I'm staring while my coffee grows cold.

| Bb          F            | Ab
    Look over there!         There!
                    (Where?)


| Ab        Eb       | [Bb  F  Ab  Eb]*
  There's a lady that I used to know.

| Bb              F       | Ab                      Eb [| Bb F | Ab Eb |]*
    She's married now, or engaged, or something, so I  am told.



CHORUS:
Notes:
[]*  - play Guitar Figure 1

Chords:
Eb  x68886           Dm  x57765
F   x8 10 10 10 8    Gm  355333
Bb  688766


| Eb                  | F        Bb
    Is she really going out with him?

| Eb                  | Dm       Gm   F  | Eb
    Is she really gonna take him home to - night?

| Eb                  | F        Gm
    Is she really going out with him?

           | Eb
'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me,

      | F                         [| Bb F | Ab Eb |]*
There's something going wrong around here.



[play: Guitar Figure 1]



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

[]* Guitar Figure 1 is played at the end of the VERSE lines but I've
just indicated the chords you're playing.

Chords:
Bb  688766           Ab  466544
F   x8 10 10 10 8    Eb  x68886


| Bb              F          | Ab            Eb        [| Bb F | Ab Eb |]*
    Tonight's the night when I go to all the parties down my street.

| Bb          F        | Ab           Eb     [| Bb F | Ab Eb |]*
    I wash my hair and I kid myself I look real smooth.

| Bb          F            | Ab
    Look over there! (Where? There!)

| Ab         Eb           [| Bb F | Ab Eb |]*
  Here comes Jeanie with her new boyfriend.

| Bb              F                   | Ab
    They say that looks don't count for much.

           | Eb     [| Bb F | Ab Eb |]*
If so, there goes your proof.



[repeat CHORUS]

    [| Bb F | Ab Eb |]*
Around here


BRIDGE:
Chords:
Dm7  x57565    F7sus4  x8 10 8 11 8
Eb   x68886    G7sus4  x 10 12 10 13 10


| Dm7                | Eb            | F7sus4           | G7sus4       | Dm7
    But if looks could kill, there's a man    there who's marked down as dead.

                 | Eb          | F7sus4         | G7sus4       | Dm7
'Cause I've had my fill, "Listen you,   take your hands  off her head!"

       | Eb             | F7sus4 | G7sus4    | F7sus4 | G7sus4 | F7sus4
I get so mean around this scene!     Hey, hey, hey.



[play: LEAD-IN]

LEAD-IN to Guitar Figure 1.
Notes:
Play the Ebmaj7 as an arpeggio.


 Ebmaj7
|--10--8------8--|
|--8------11-----|
|--8-------------|
|--8-------------|
|----------------|
|----------------|



[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]


[repeat CHORUS]


CODA:
Notes:
After the CHORUS, you continue playing out on a repeated Guitar Figure 1
and singing the last CHORUS line as below:


     | Bb    F | Ab              Eb         | Bb    F
Around here,     something going wrong around here

| Ab              Eb         | Bb    F
  Something going wrong around here,

| Ab              Eb         | Bb    F
  something going wrong around here,

| Ab              Eb
  something going wrong around...