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Song title:      If I Had A Girl
Original Album:  Grand Union EP

Words and Music by Nerina Pallot
Copyright © 2014 Idaho / Echo Records
Published by Idaho Records

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Notes:
Sung a capella. You'll have to listen to the song to get this bit.

Yeah eah eah eh. Yeah eah eah eah eah, eah eah eah eh.

[repeat]


VERSE1:
Chords:
G 355433    Eb x68886
D x57775    C  x35553


      G                                    D
I'm a rock on an island and need no one to love me

       G                                    D
At the end of the world there'll be no man above me

  Eb                        C
I work the live long day to do the things my way

         Eb          C                G
But if I had a girl, I would tell her this:



VERSE2:
Chords:
G 355433    Eb x68886
D x57775    C  x35553


        G                                       D
Oh, you know me long but your skirt comes in to question

         G                             D
That you ask what it will be the ?? suggestion


    Eb                        C
You work the live long day to take home half the pay

        Eb          C                G
So if I had a girl, I would tell her this:



CHORUS:
Chords:
G 355433    Eb x68886
D x57775    C  x35553


             G
You gotta be bold and better, hard and faster

      Eb
Don't take no shit off no lord, no master

      C                                D
Don't listen when they say how far you go


         G
'Cos you go to work and you raise the babies

        Eb
And you work so long, now, listen ladies

       C                       Eb          G
If you think we're done, we've only just begun



Guitar SOLO:
  G
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-7b------5----------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------8---5-------5------|---------5-h-8------------------|
|---------------------8----------|-----8--------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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


[repeat]


  G
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------6----------------------|--------------------------------|
|-7-----------7---5--------------|--------------------------------|
|---------------------8---5------|---------5-h-8------------------|
|--------------------------------|-----8--------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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


|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-7b------5----------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------8---5-------5------|---------5-h-8------------------|
|---------------------8----------|-----8--------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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


                  VERSE3:
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-7-------5----------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------8---5--------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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

                  Well, you go to...



VERSE3:
Chords:
G 355433    Eb x68886
D x57775    C  x35553


          G                                   D
Well, you go to school, they tell that you're equal

           G                                        D
But in the big wide world, that just means half the people


    Eb                                      C
And one thing you don't see, there ain't no dicks on Page Three

          Eb           C                    G
So if you have a girl, please remind her of this:


[repeat CHORUS]

       Eb                      C           G
If you think we're done, we've only just begun

       Eb                      C           G
If you think we're done, we've only just begun



[repeat Guitar SOLO]

[Sing "We've only got started..." over the top]

"So far to go..."
"So far to go, now..."



OUT-VERSE:
Chords:
G 355433    Eb x68886
D x57775    C  x35553

G                                 C
  If I wear my skirt short, don't mean I carry no brain

         Eb                                   D
And if I cover myself from head to toe, don't mean that I'm in chains

G                           C
I don't have to hate men to know that life ain't fair

           Eb                                 D                   G
But when I see how far we've got to go, but I know that we'll get there.