Mary Chapin Carpenter – Quittin Time (Guitar)

Capo 2

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# (by Robb Royer & Roger Linn; performed by Mary-Chapin Carpenter) ----------------------------------- Okay, a couple notes about this song. First of all, the electric guitar plays this song in D, and Mary-Chapin plays the acoustic guitar in C, capoed up two frets (as I've written it here). Don't worry too much about the bass notes in the chorus; they were just so obvious I had to put them in. The little riff at the end of the C Fmaj7 G G lines (after "tell me what

we're gonna do") is just Gsus4-Gsus4-G, Gsus4-Gsus4-G.  Finger G as 320003,
and use your index finger to do the first fret on the B string.  (Of course,

it's Asus4-Asus4-A if you play it in D.) Each chord is half a measure. Capo 2. One more thing: in her 1994 Acoustic Tour, MCC performed a slowed-down version of this song. The chords were pretty much the same, but it was finger-picked instead of strummed, and there was an E or E7 chord between the G and Am, right before "But you pretend..." Try it.

C   C   Fmaj7  Fmaj7  G   G   G   G     C   C   Fmaj7  Fmaj7  G   G   G   G

[intro]

C       C     Fmaj7             Fmaj7  G   G   G   G
   Hey baby, tell me what we're gonna do

C       C         Fmaj7       Fmaj7              G   G   G   G
   It's getting crazy and I need some help from you

C  C           F          F           G      G   G   G
We were so connected that you were a part of me

C   C          F        F             G       G   G   G
Now I feel an emptiness right to the heart of me

    Am     G/B      C      C       F    C/E       G    G
But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine

    Am        G/B       C      F
And though we should be at an end

     Am        F          (2/4) G
It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin' time

(4/4) C   C  Fmaj7  Fmaj7  G  G  G  G

     [instrumental]

Hey baby, I'm running out of things to say (C C FM7 FM7 G G G G) Please don't hate me, this feeling just won't go away (C C FM7 FM7 G G G G) Now we're spending all our time caught in A fantasy (C C F F G G G G) Just trying to keep in mind the way it used to be (C C F F G G G G) [Chorus] [Guitar solo, same chords as chorus] [Repeat second verse] But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine (Am G C C F C G G)

And though we should be at an end                     (Am  G  C  F)
It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin' time        (Am  F  G  C)

But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine (Am G C C F C G G)

And though we should be at an end                     (Am  G  C  F)
It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin'...          (Am  F  G)

(So hard admittin' when it's quittin'...) (Am F G) So hard admittin' when it's quittin' time (Am F G C) - Adam Schneider, [email protected]