Mary Chapin Carpenter – Girl And Her Dog (Guitar)

G
Everyone asks when you're growing up

Em7
"Who do you wanna be?"

    C
I never had an answer, couldn't figure out

D
Why I couldn't see

  G
Myself as some future other

   Em7
No one's partner, no one's mother

   C
No one's answer, no one's lover

D
Nobody but me

        C
But the older I get the more I see

     G
That more by itself never worked for me

Em7                     G
Keeping it simple as it can be

C                  D
Walking along just him and me

C
Mornings here with a coffee cup

G
Songs in my head, looking up

       Em7            G               C
If the rain holds off we'll be in luck

          D      G     Em7  C  Am7 D
But we're lucky anyway

  G
A long time ago I got married once

   Em7
It didn't take long to find

         C
That the words I heard coming out of his mouth

D
Were not the truthful kind

  G
I thought about moving to LA

Em7
Maybe upstate or the UK

   C
Anywhere as long as it's far away

D
From what I left behind

        C
And the older I get the more I'm sure

     G
That more by itself never was a cure

     Em7                      G
Some days I've got nothing to show for except

C                      D
Walking the dog and walking the floor

C
Mornings here with a coffee cup

G
Stories in my head, looking up

       Em7         D                  C
If the rain holds off we'll be in luck

          D     C
But we're lucky anyway

G
In summer neighbors leave tomatoes

   Em7
In fall dust coats your tires

C
Spring greens up every shadow

     Am7             D
In December we lay a fire

  G
I figure I'm finally old enough

        Em7
To know who I wanna be when I grow up

  C
A girl and her dog riding in the truck

D
Wave as we're going by

        C
Now the older I get the less I need

       G
Just a good old dog underneath the trees

Em7                     G
Keeping it simple as it can be

C                          D
Fitting together like a puzzle piece

G                    C
Mornings here with a coffee cup

G
Whistling for him while I'm looking up

       Em7            G               C
If the rain holds off we'll be in luck

          D      G     Em7
But we're lucky anyway

               C
We're lucky anyway