Grateful Dead – Good Morning Little School Girl (Guitar)

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Chords

All chords are dominant 7ths. It's blues and you'll hear the b7ths here and there BUT... the tonality they are more playing with is minor blues over major chords. So they often play the A and D chords straight and are emphasizing the minor blues notes in the riffs.
Intro riff pattern
e|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|
D|---7-7-5h7-5-------------|
A|-------------5-----------|
E|-5-------------8-5-5h8-5-|   h = hammer on

Verse riff pattern
e|-5--3h5-3----------------|
B|----------5--------------|
G|------------7---5--------|
D|--------------7---7------|
A|-------------------------|
E|-------------------------|
[Verse 1]
A7
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?

A7
Tell your mama and your papa I'm a little schoolboy too.

D7
Come on now pretty baby I just can't help myself

A7
You're so young and pretty I don't need nobody else.

E7                                  D7
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?

                   A7
Don't you hear me crying?
[Verse 2]
A7
I'm gonna leave you baby, about the break of day

A7
On account of the way you treat me, I got to stay away.

D7
Come on now pretty baby darling come on home

    A7
You know I love you baby, I got to get you all alone.

E7                                  D7
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?

                   A7
Don't you hear me crying?
[Verse 3]
A7
I'm gonna buy me an airplane, fly all over your town

A7
Tell everybody baby, lord knows you're fine

D7
Come on now pretty baby, I just can't help myself

A7
You're so young and pretty I don't need nobody else.

E7                                  D7
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?

                   A7
Don't you hear me crying?
[Verse 4]
                    A7
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?

                    A7
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?

                        A7
Tell your mama and your papa I'm a little schoolboy too.

                 A7
I'm a schoolboy, too. Hey, I'm a schoolboy, too.

                  A7 
I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine

                  A7
I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine

                A7
I want to put a tiger, baby I want to put a tiger, baby.

                A7
I want to put a tiger, baby, hey in your sweet little tank.

                   A7
Hey baby now yes I do ha, yes I do

            A7
Hey I got to, hey I got to come on home with you

          A7
Tell your mother, baby tell your papa, tell your mama and your papa

                      A7
Hey, I'm a schoolboy, too, hey, hey, I'm a schoolboy, too.

                         A7
Ha oww, I'm a schoolboy too, ow, I wanna keep your company

                      A7
Hey I wanna keep your company.