Note: the song is arranged as 3 bars of 4/4, 1 bar of 2/4, 2 bars of 4/4.  Strumming patterns 1 and 2
should be played consecutively and repeated throughout the song. (Had to be arranged as two separate
patterns, there's not room to put them together as one).


[Intro] 
          
One, two, thre

   
e, uh!


[Verse 1]
              
My baby don't 


mess around
            
Because she lo

ves me so
             
And this I kno

      
w for sure

             
  But does she

 
 really wanna
          
But can't stan

d to see me
            
Walk out the d

oor

             
  Don't try to

 
 fight the fee

ling
           
'Cause the tho

ught alone
             
Is killing me 

      
right now

             
  Thank God fo

  
r mom and dad
             
For sticking t

wo together
             
'Cause we don'

       
t know how


[Chorus]
      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...
      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...

      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...
      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...


[Verse 2]
             
  You think yo

             
u've got it, o

h, you think y

ou've got it
    
But got it jus

t don't get it
             
Till there's n

           
othing at all

             
  We get toget

     
her, oh we get

 together
    
But separate's

 always better
             
When there's f

          
eelings involv

ed

             
  If what they

         
 say is "Nothi

ng is forever"
     
Then what make

s, then what m

akes,
             
Then what make

        
s, then what m

akes, love exc

eption

             
  So why you, 

       
why you, 
             
why you, why y

              
ou, why you...

        
 are so in den

ial
             
When we know w

         
e're not happy

 here...


[Chorus]
      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...
      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...

      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...
      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa.. H

ey, alright no

w


[Bridge 1]
             
Alright now fe

        
llas, (YEAH!)
              
Now what's coo

   
ler than bein'

 cool?
    
(ICE COLD!) I 

can't hear ya'
              
I say what's c

             
ooler than bei

  
n' cool?
     
(ICE COLD!) wh

ooo...
             
Alright, alrig

ht, alright, a

lright
             
Alright, alrig

              
ht, alright, a

 
lright

Alright, alright, alright, alright
              
Alright, alrig

             
ht, OK now lad

      
ies, (YEAH!)
              
And we gon' br

             
eak this back 

              
down in just a

           
 few seconds
              
Now don't have

              
 me break this

              
 thang down fo

  
r nothin'
             
Now I wanna se

              
e y'all on y'a

      
ll baddest beh

avior
             
Lend me some s

  
ugar, I am you

r neighbor ahh

 here we go!


[Bridge 2]
             
Shake it, sh-s

         
hake it, shake

 it, sh-shake 

it (Uh-oh)
             
Shake it, sh-s

             
hake it, Shake

     
 it, shake it,

 sh-shake it (

Uh-oh)
              
Shake it like 

             
a Polaroid pic

          
ture, hey ya!
             
Shake it, sh-s

         
hake it, shake

 it, sh-shake 

it
         
Shake it, shak

e it (okay), s

hake it, sugar

              
Shake it like 

           
a Polaroid pic

ture
              
Now all the Be

              
yoncés and Luc

  
y Lius
             
And baby dolls

            
, get on the f

loor
              
You know what 

              
to do, oh, you

              
 know what to 

   
do
             
  You know wha

           
t to do


[Chorus]
      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...
      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...

      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...
      
Heeeey yaaaaa.

..
   
Hey yaaaaa...