This Is What Makes Us Girls

	  		


Dm                            C          Bb 
Remember how we used to party up all night 
                 C                           Dm 
Sneaking out and looking for a taste of real life 
                C              Bb 
Drinking in the small town firelight 
            C 
(Pabst Blue Ribbon on ice) 

Dm                     C 
Sweet sixteen and we had arrived 
Bb                              C 
Walking down the street as they whistle, "Hi, hi!" 
Dm                            C 
Stealin' police cars with the senior guys 
Bb                                C 
Teachers said we'd never make it out alive 

Dm                        C 
There she was my new best friend 
              Bb                         C 
High heels in her hands, swayin' in the wind 
                    Dm                    C                    Am 
While she starts to cry, mascara runnin' down her little Bambi eyes: 
"Lana, how I hate those guys." 

Bb                        C 
This is what makes us girls 
                  Dm                           C 
We don't look for heaven and we put our love first 
                    Bb                  C 
Don't you know we'd die for it? It's a curse 
           Dm                  C 
Don't cry about it, don't cry about it 
Bb                        C 
This is what makes us girls 
                     Dm                            C 
We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first 
                  Dm                  C 
Don't cry about him, don't cry about him 
                Am 
It's all gonna happen 

Dm                                    C       Bb 
And that's where the beginning of the end begun 
          C                         Dm 
Everybody knew that we had too much fun 
                   G                        Bb 
We were skippin' school and drinkin' on the job 
             C 
(With the boss) 

Dm                     C 
Sweet sixteen and we had arrived 
Bb                          C 
Baby's table dancin' at the local dive 
Dm                       C 
Cheerin our names in the pink spotlight 
Am 
Drinkin' cherry schnapps in the velvet night 

Dm                        C 
Know we used to go break in 
              Bb                    C 
to the hotel pool, glittering we'd swim 
                  Dm                      C 
Runnin' from the cops in our black bikini tops 
                               A 
screaming, "Get us while we're hot" 
"We don't give a whaaat!" 

Bb                        C 
This is what makes us girls 
                  Dm                           C 
We don't look for heaven and we put our love first 
                    Bb                  C 
Don't you know we'd die for it? It's a curse 
           Dm                  C 
Don't cry about it, don't cry about it 
Bb                        C 
This is what makes us girls 
                     Dm                            C 
We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first 
                  Dm                  C 
Don't cry about him, don't cry about him 
                Am 
It's all gonna happen 

Dm                           C 
The prettiest crowd that you had ever seen 
Bb                          C 
Ribbons in our hair and our eyes gleamed mean 
   Dm                        C 
A freshmen generation of degenerate beauty queens 
Bb            C 
And you know something? 

              Dm                  C 
They were the only friends I ever had 
            Bb                         C 
We got into trouble and when stuff got bad 
           Dm                        C 
I got sent away, I was waving on the train platform 
Bb                             C 
Crying 'cause I know I'm never comin' back. 

Bb                        C 
This is what makes us girls 
                  Dm                           C 
We don't look for heaven and we put our love first 
                    Bb                  C 
Don't you know we'd die for it? It's a curse 
           Dm                  C 
Don't cry about it, don't cry about it 
Bb                        C 
This is what makes us girls 
               Dm                             C 
Darlin' little queens do you know what you're worth? 
                   Dm                   C 
I'll tell you everyday till you get it, girl 
               Am 
It's all gonna happen 

Bb                     C 
This is what makes us girls now, baby. 
Dm                      C 
This is why we rule the world now, baby. 
Bb                     C 
This is what makes us girls now, baby. 
Dm              C 
Why we rule the world now, baby, oh.