The Lumineers – Classy Girls (Guitar)

Capo 3
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Versions (3)

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I wanted to play this song like they do live, in a lot of their acoustic bar performances. It's a little loose on structure but very similar to Version 2, which is played in C. Didn't feel like hitting transpose button every time. [Intro/verse] picking pattern (Like i said this part is free-styled a little bit, but within the chords. You can definitely ad-lib. [Intro/first] 3 Verses picking:
   A
e|--------------------------------------|
B|-------2-------------------2----------|
G|---2-----------2--2--2----------2---2-|
D|--------------------------------------|
A|-0---0-----------0--0--0----------0---|
E|--------------------------------------|

   D
e|---------2------------------2---------|
B|---3------------3--3--3---------3---3-|
G|--------------------------------------|
D|-0---0-----------0--0--0----------0---|
A|--------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------|

   E               D
e|---------0------------------2---------|
B|----------------------3---------3---3-|
G|---1-----------1--1-------------------|
D|--------------------0---0---------0---|
A|-2---2-----------2--------------------|
E|--------------------------------------|

   A
e|--------------------------------------|
B|-------2-------------------2----------|
G|---2-----------2--2--2----------2---2-|
D|--------------------------------------|
A|-0---0-----------0--0--0----------0---|
E|--------------------------------------|
[intro and verse] are just that repeated. [Verse 1]
     A                A
Welllll, she was standing in the bar

     D              D
I said, "Hello, how do you do?"

    E           D                  A  A
She handed me a beer with a kangaroo

     A              A            D
She spoke of places I had never been

              D
That she had traveled to

    E                D                  A   A
And we slowed danced along to faster tunes

  A                                A                          D
I made her laugh, I made a pass, I showed her my half dollar ring

                          D
She said, "That's pretty cool,

    E                   D                  A    A
But classy girls don't kiss in bars, you fool"
[Interlude] (Picking ends here and strumming starts): A A D D E D A [Verse 2]
   A            A
So later on the crowd calmed down

    D            D
And I believe it was as if

  E                D              A   A
Something drew me closer to her lips

   A            A                 D                D
So picture my surprise when I had tried to lean in for a kiss

    E                   D                    A   A
And she just smiled and turned her head down

   A
I asked her, "Why?" and she replied,

 A                          D                        D
"It was nothing I was doing wrong, its just what it is"

      E                  D                A   A
No, classy girls don't kiss in bars like this
[Chorus]
    D                  E
No, classy girls don't kiss in bars

    D                  E
Boys will break their backs and hearts

    D                 A                  E
But its alright, the hardest part is through
[Outro]
               E
Oh it's through

               E
Oh it's through

               E
Oh it's through

                      A
The hardest part is through.