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Song title:       Womanhood
Original Album:   Live At The Longbranch Saloon
Other Album:      Precise Modern Lovers Order

Words and Music by Jonathan Richman
Copyright © 1994 Rounder Records
Published by Modern Lovers Music

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This was transcribed from the version on Precise Modern Lovers Order.


INTRO:

[spoken]
Now the womanhood, it was so good I couldn't stand it.
Now I smelled her hair and I trembled and I got dizzy
and this is a song about that...

[play: arpeggioed  B  A  B]

[play: Guitar Figure 1]


Guitar Figure 1

   B  E B    A    B E B    A B A    E   A   E
|--7/-7-7/-/-5----7-7-7/---5-7-5/---7/--5/--7/-//--|
|--7/-9-7/-/-5----7-9-7/---5-7-5/---9/--5/--9/-//--|
|--8/-9-8/-/-6----8-9-8/---6-8-6/---9/--6/--9/-//--|
|--9/-9-9/-/-7----9-9-9/---7-9-7/---9/--7/--9/-//--|
|--9/-7-9/-/-7----9-7-9/---7-9-7/---7/--7/--7/-//--|
|--7/-7-7/-/-5----7-7-7/---5-7-5/---7/--5/--7/-//--|



VERSE:
              B           A
I smelled her hair, I got dizzy
         B       A
Only her hair, I trembled now


CHORUS:
         B            A
It's the womanhood is   so good
B            A
Womanhood is   so good
  E             A
I trembled now,
  E             A
I can't control


VERSE:
        B                         A
Well, I walked by the house and I trembled
            B                A
It's only a house, oh, but I tremble now


CHORUS:
         B            A
It's the womanhood is   so good,
    B            A
The womanhood is   so good
  E        A
I tremble,   that's right,
      E              A
And I can't control

Alright Sherry...


[Instrumental over VERSE chords]


VERSE:
           B
When she's busy, she's busy
             A
Well, that's awful, oh alright
                B
Well, now she's busy, so busy
        A
I can't stand it now


CHORUS:
         B            A
It's the womanhood is   so good,
    B            A
The womanhood is   so good
        E      A
And I'm dizzy,   that's right,
      E              A
And I can't control

            B
Oh, but I'm grown up on something,
            A
Something I can't control

E
  Two, three, four...


   E B      D A   E B E   D A         E   A     E   E
|--7-7------5-5---7-7-7---5-5---------7/--5/----7/--7/--|
|--9-7------7-5---9-7-9---7-5---------9/--5/----9/--9/--|
|--9-8------7-6---9-8-9---7-6---------9/--6/----9/--9/--|
|--9-9------7-7---9-9-9---7-7---------9/--7/----9/--9/--|
|--7-9------5-7---7-9-7---5-7---------7/--7/----7/--7/--|
|--7-7------5-5---7-7-7---5-5---------7/--5/----7/--7/--|

      Right...                Alright.



CHORDS:
E     079997
A     577655
B     799877
D     557775