Chords for A Plea For Tenderness - Jonathan Richman

_ Now girls _
_ _ _ _ _
Do [A#] you hate men?
[A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] Well, you know
_ Sometimes you just don't talk to them _ _ _ _
[B] _ that's sad cuz I
Can see tenderness
[A] _
_ Your faces _ [B]
and innocence
_ straight From
[Am] _ _ Infant days [B] and there must be tenderness
_ [Am] deep inside _ _
[E] Oh, you're so cold _ _
_ But it [F#] still shows _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ Well, I can take
_ [F#] _ _
Vacant [C#] stare
[E] _
But it's so much to say [F#] now
It seems a waste
[E] _
But if you don't want me to know [F#] what's going on inside
_ _ [E] Just tell me now [F#] and I'll go _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ You told me [F#] about school.
_ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ I [B] only wanna know [F#] about you _ _ _
[E] And I'm hungry for now
_ [F#] I'm starving for now
_ [C#] [E] and now _ _
[F#] _ _ [B] No, _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ _
but if you care about [E] me
_ [C#] Tell me [B] now
If I'm better
_ [E] Tell _ _ me [B] now
If it's important, but [E] I touch your arm and light you'd better _ _
[F#] tell
me [B] _
now
_ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B]
You _ _ _ [E] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ know, I've just read some writers now _ _
_ _ _ From the old [B] days
[E] _ _ _
[D#] _ _ _ _ _
Because I [E] knew [B] I knew the day
_ [E] Understand _ that's [B] right _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ [B] because dignity Dignity
_ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ And tenderness _
_ _ [B] Right _ [E] _
_ _ _ [B] should apply
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ To
_ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ So _ _ [A] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ don't tell me dear
_ Don't tell me any [C#m] words about [E] your school and your homework _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ I'm not gonna be interested in stories
_ about [C#] your stupid [E] pet cats _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ Just talk about [B] _ love or [C#m]
sex
_ stop
[C#m] _ _
[B] Just shut up _
And [E] I'll go _ _
[B] but
_ If you care [E] about me now
Tell [B] me now
If I'm better [C#] [E] than the world now
Tell me [B] now
If it's important, but [E] I touch your hand
Tell me [B] now
If you care [C#] about being alone at all
_ [B] _ If it hurts to be [E] alone in your kitchen the way you've been staying [C#m] over these past [B] few months
_ [B] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ If it [C#] hurts to not [E] be honest with yourself the way you've been for the [B] past few years seems
[B]
So [E] tell me now
_ [F#] _
[B] Because _ _ I've been starving [E] for war _ _ _
_ _ [B] You never give me any [E] warmth Whoa?
[B] You can't hide anymore or take [E] drugs or smoke cigarettes or alcohol
[B] Or makeup or this other bullshit that [E] you use in your life in your life
[B] So I can't see you clear in your life, [G#] you know, [C#m] I [E] can't see you clear in your life
You know, [B] I can't stay [C#m] this way
Stand to hurt [C#m] this way
Stand to go [B] to bed alone
Stand to feel my pride and fight alone
Stand to feel my ego [C#] awake
[B] Stand to feel the swell
Go to the dark
Go to [C#m] the dark I stand
All [C#] alone I [B] stand
I stand in the dark
[F#] I'm at your door [B] and I wait to see if I should go [C#] inside
_ [B] _ But you don't talk to me
And we just pretend
That's right, we just pretend
[E] And I won't have it anymore
Never, [B] I haven't had it [C#] Yeah _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [B] Because I can't stand
To be [E] alone in [F#m] life _
[E] _ _ [B] And I can't stand
To [C#] pretend to [E] be together in life
[F#] Oh
[B] You can't hide
Or take drugs [D#] with me [E] Or cigarettes Or [G#m] alcohol
[B] Or this other [C#] shit that you use in life
Oh, I [E] can't see you clear
[F#] I want to see you clear
[B] You gotta say it loud
If [C#] you care [D#] about [E] me
Then you better
_ Tell _ [F#] me
[B] _ Loud Yeah
_ _ _ _ Oh
[E] _ _ Oh _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
See dear
I know how beautiful [G] Death is _ _ _
_ [B] And I know why
You [G] hate life _ _ _
_ [B] Just now
[D#m] _
Tender [G#m] soul _ _ _
[E] And be glad
_ [F#] You _ [B] know You see
All men [D#] are just _
[G#m] Tender soul _
And [E] be glad I told you
[F#] And be glad
That [B] you know _ _ _