Fishtail

	  		Don't you dare say that 
You'll braid my hair, babe 
If you don't really care 

Fm 
You wanted me sadder 
Eb 
You wanted me sadder 
Bb                          Ab 
Fishtail, what's the matter? Ah-ah-ah 

Fm 
  Skipping rope in the bayou, bayou 
Ab 
  Slip softly in terrain 
Bb                             Ab 
  Not that smart, but I've got things to say 
Fm 
  Palm trees in black and white 
Eb 
  I like to watch them sway 
Bb 
  You're so funny 
       Ab 
I wish I could skinny dip inside your mind 

Fm                  Eb                                Bb 
  Lately, I've been thinking about how things used to be 
              Ab                               Fm 
Swinging in a nightgown underneath the old oak tree 
             Eb                            Bb 
Almost Victorian with you, you can talk to me 
                 Ab 
But lately I can see 

                     Fm 
You wanted me sadder (baby) 
Eb 
You wanted me sadder 
          Bb    Ab 
Can't you see? 
    Fm                             Eb 
For me, you are the one and if I'm not the one for you 
          Bb     Ab 
Don't you say it 

Fm                                          Eb 
I was on the stairs, Ella Fitzgerald in the air 

Feeling hella rare 
             Bb 
Baby, if you care 

Baby, don't you dare say 
Ab 
You'll braid my hair, babe 

Fm                 Eb  
Don't you dare say that you'll braid my hair, babe 
   Bb 
If you don't really care 
Ab 
  You wanted me sadder 

Fm 
  Dancing there in the hot, hot Sun 
Eb 
  I know that we've got problems 
Bb                       Ab 
  I plan to address them another day 
Fm 
  Palm trees in black and white 
Eb 
  I see in technicolor 
Bb                           Ab                                       
  Maybe I'll take my glasses off 

So I stop painting red flags 
Fm 
Green 

                  Eb                      Bb 
Lately, I've been sunning in the LA river bed 
                Ab                           Fm 
Wearing nothing but the summer bruises on my knees 
                    Eb                              Bb 
I like how you talk, how you speak, how you look at me 
                 Ab 
But lately I can see 

                     Fm 
You wanted me sadder (baby) 
Eb 
You wanted me sadder 

You wanted me sadder 
          Bb    Ab 
Can't you see? 
    Fm                             Eb 
For me, you are the one and if I'm not the one for you 
          Bb     Ab 
Don't you say it 

Fm                                          Eb 
I was on the stairs, Ella Fitzgerald in the air 

Feeling hella rare 
             Bb 
Baby, if you care 

Baby, don't you dare say 
Ab 
You'll braid my hair, babe 

Fm                           
Baby, if you care, then 

(Don't you dare say that 

You'll braid my hair, see) 
Eb                            Bb              Ab 
Baby, don't you dare say that you really care 
Eb                   Eb 
  Don't you dare say that you'll braid my hair 
     Bb                      Ab 
When you get home tonight if you don't really care 

Fm                       Eb 
Yeah, don't you dare say that 

You'll braid my hair, babe 
   Bb                          Ab 
If you don't really care, see, don't you braid my hair 
             Fm              Eb  Bb 
If you're not coming home to me, mmm 

Ab 
You want someone sadder 

Fm 
  Skipping rope in the bayou, bayou 
Ab 
  Slip softly in terrain 
Bb               Ab 
  Not that smart,   but I've got things to say