No, I didn’t forget.

Here’s a song I wrote last year sometime. It’s really simple and in standard tuning for once, I’ll post the chords with it below.

There’s actually two very different recordings of this; I posted the new one I did, which is all acoustic — the other is more electric with a rockabilly drumbeat behind it.

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Yah, I know, the bass is muddy as hell, I mixed the backing vocals a little too low, and the electric guitar part sux. But hey, it’s very much a tongue-in-cheek song anyway. Who cares? It’s supposed to sound like everyone is just hanging out jamming.

Lyrics:

She Walked (acoustic version)

The main part is just A and D.

A D
Seems like every single day we’re just passing on parade, getting down and knowing what to do
A D
Got pretensions to a romance, doin’ wooin’ half ass and afterwards feeling kinda blue
A D
I had a simple little notion that was half and half a potion, magic let me down and fell through
A D
Now my baby’s left me lonely with a pile of if-onlies and a tab for drinks dinner and you
A D A D A D G F E
And she walked, she walked, she walked, out on me.

Got no handsome little mama, got some pile of coochie drama and the scene is left all a crime
I a-said a somethin’ stupid and the net escaped the Cupid and I’m dealin’ with love double timed
So then I called her sister said I really kinda missed her but she said that I deserved to fry
Called me cheatin’ dirty liar bastard and a whoreson wolf cryer, shoving pain where the sun don’t shine

And she walked, she walked, she walked out on me

E G A
And I, I tried to change
E D A
I meant every word I said
E G A
I, I tried to change
E E7
Just cause I tried to twice in one day
A D
She walked…

Well I had some mean intentions but I got some pretty mentions so now I’m feeling kinda fine
Not like I really need her ‘cept when I kinda dream her in the middle of the cold cold night
So if you see her walkin’ around with guys around town that don’t deserve her pretty eyes
Tell her that she walked my heart, stomped it all apart, and now I think I’m gonna die

Yeah she walked, she walked, she walked, out on me

E
And I think she likes it that way

(and back to the riff)