...MY GIRL... by Madness
-------------...........

*from 'One Step Beyond' (1979)*


*NB* / = Slide (between Chords)


Intro:

    ,    (x3)

Verse 1:

     
        My gir

               (
l's mad at me.
     
       I didn'

        
t wanna see th

e film tonight

.
     
        I foun

              
d it hard to s

    (
ay.
     
       She tho

              
ught I'd had e

 
-nough of her.

Chorus 1:

         
 Why can't she

 
 see;
          
 She's lovely 

   
to me?
         
 But I like to

           
 stay in, and 

   
watch T.V.
        
 On my own, ev

        
ery now and th

en.

Verse 2:

     
        My gir

               (
l's mad at me.
     
       Been on

          
 the tele-phon

e for an hour.
     
        We har

              
dly said a wor

   (
d.
     
       I tried

              
 and tried, bu

  
t I could not 

be heard.

Chorus 2:

         
 Why can't I e

  
x-plain?
          
 Why do I feel

      
 this pain?
           
 'Cos every-th

         
ing I say, she

         
 doesn't, unde

  
r-stand,
            
She doesn't re

          
a-lise; she ta

          
kes it all the

       
 wrong way.

Piano Solo:

/, / (), /,  (x2)

Verse 4:

     
        My gir

               (
l's mad at me.
     
       We argu

            
ed just the ot


her night.
     
       I thoug

              
ht we'd got it

           (
 straight,
     
       We talk

              
ed and talked,

    
 un-til it was

 light.

Chorus 3:

         
 I thought we'

    
d a-greed,
           
 I thought we'

           
d talked it ou

t.
           
 Now when I tr

         
y to speak, sh

           
e says that, I

/     
 don't care,
             
She says I'm u

#         
n-a-ware, and 

          
now she says I

   
'm weak.

Outro:

    ,   , 


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)