Chords for Janis Ian Talks About Getting Married
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So we went looking for clothes.
Picture two middle-aged women, chunky.
It was very relieved to have jobs that don't require wearing dresses.
Going into the local Macy's outlet store and meeting up with our personal [E] shopper, Luelle.
He says, what's the occasion?
And Pat says, I'm getting married.
And I say simultaneously, I'm getting married.
And Luelle says, I should do some [G] special zealots.
And so Pat said, [E] no, we are getting married to each other.
[A] And Luelle never missed a beat.
She said, bless your heart.
[B] And Pat says, [D#] come over here and meet these two [E] nice little old ladies.
To each other.
[N]
Huh.
Huh.
We went through the bridal dresses in about an eighth of a second.
We went through the regular [B] dresses in another eighth of a second.
[A] We went through the suits.
We went through the suits for women who are lawyers and don't want to look [Em] like men but need to [F#m] nevertheless present that look.
We [A] went through everything and to, Pat was [N] saying that she thought maybe she wouldn't get married after all.
When I spied a row of Hawaiian shirts.
And so that was that.
We showed up in Toronto a month later with our Hawaiian shirts in tow.
[A]
At the [E] science fiction convention.
[F#] So we check into the hotel.
And the woman behind the desk says, oh, are you here for the convention?
And Pat says, no, we're here to get married [C] to each other.
And the woman goes, isn't that wonderful?
We'll give you the bridal suite.
[D]
And I have to confess, as politically incorrect as this will sound,
[E] it felt weird.
It just feels weird.
I mean, what do I call her?
My spouse?
Sounds like a suit.
My partner in the business relationship.
My lover [D] sexualizes the whole thing.
My husband, no, not [C#] even going there.
My wife, not great either.
Pat's suggestion was she who must be [N] obeyed, but I KO'd that.
I just don't know quite how to react.
And even I didn't [E] know how to react.
So we both kind of joked a lot about it.
Because we were uncomfortable.
But the next morning we went to Starbucks.
And we ordered [A] lattes.
And the guy said, are you here for the science fiction convention?
[Gm] And I said, no, we're getting married to each [N] other.
And he went, oh, lattes on me.
Welcome to Canada.
[Gm] This was weird.
All [E] that week, people treated us like we were normal.
It was so strange.
It felt so abnormal.
You can't tell you.
So we found ourselves with several science fiction writers as witnesses,
everybody [F] wearing Hawaiian shirts,
standing in front of a very [E] nice minister.
And we were still kind of awkward about it, a little embarrassed.
And we kept saying to each other, look,
[D] it's a good thing politically.
We should count ourselves.
But really, [B] what does it mean?
It's a piece of paper.
I mean, we've been together 16 years.
It's just [E] a piece of paper.
So imagine our surprise when the ceremony finished
and Malcolm St.
Clair said, you are now married.
And we both burst into tears.
And we looked at each other and we were both thinking the same thing.
It's just a piece of paper.
It's not [B] that big a deal.
And yet we found ourselves weeping all the way out of the courthouse,
all the way down the courthouse steps.
And later on when we were talking about it,
we realized that all of our lives together,
we had assumed we would be outlaws.
All of our lives together,
we had assumed that people would stare at us if we held hands,
that people would [B] make fun of us if we said we loved each other.
We just assumed that because that's the way it had always been.
And yet, for the [Em] first time in our life,
we not only had a marriage certificate,
but we had the weight of an [E] entire country's legal system
standing behind us saying, you know what?
You're just like everybody else.
And that was awe-inspiring and it was profound
and it was astonishing and that's why we came [D] home.
We're married in London [E] but not in New York.
[B]
[N] [E] Spain says we're kosher, the states say we're [Am] pork.
They didn't get that in Nashville.
[C]
[D] [A] The judge [D] said amen.
And when [F#m] we got home we [A] were single [D] again.
It's hard being married and living in sin.
[C]
[Em] Sometimes [D] I forget just [A] which state I am [A] in.
[Gm] [D]
I'd be a [D] mess,
[Em] trying to [A] figure out what [D] to confess.
My past Sweden [D] says I've got a wife.
[Em] Amsterdam [D] tells me I'm partnered [A] for life.
[A] Back in America, [D]
land of the free,
I'm [Em] a threat to [F#m] the national [A] security.
[D]
[D]
If I were a frog,
[C] [E]
here's what [D] I would say.
[Em] It's hard [D] being green.
[A]
It's hard being gay.
[D] Love has no color
and [A]
hearts have no [D] sex.
[Em] So love where [D] you can
[A] and fuck all the rest.
[F]
[N]
Picture two middle-aged women, chunky.
It was very relieved to have jobs that don't require wearing dresses.
Going into the local Macy's outlet store and meeting up with our personal [E] shopper, Luelle.
He says, what's the occasion?
And Pat says, I'm getting married.
And I say simultaneously, I'm getting married.
And Luelle says, I should do some [G] special zealots.
And so Pat said, [E] no, we are getting married to each other.
[A] And Luelle never missed a beat.
She said, bless your heart.
[B] And Pat says, [D#] come over here and meet these two [E] nice little old ladies.
To each other.
[N]
Huh.
Huh.
We went through the bridal dresses in about an eighth of a second.
We went through the regular [B] dresses in another eighth of a second.
[A] We went through the suits.
We went through the suits for women who are lawyers and don't want to look [Em] like men but need to [F#m] nevertheless present that look.
We [A] went through everything and to, Pat was [N] saying that she thought maybe she wouldn't get married after all.
When I spied a row of Hawaiian shirts.
And so that was that.
We showed up in Toronto a month later with our Hawaiian shirts in tow.
[A]
At the [E] science fiction convention.
[F#] So we check into the hotel.
And the woman behind the desk says, oh, are you here for the convention?
And Pat says, no, we're here to get married [C] to each other.
And the woman goes, isn't that wonderful?
We'll give you the bridal suite.
[D]
And I have to confess, as politically incorrect as this will sound,
[E] it felt weird.
It just feels weird.
I mean, what do I call her?
My spouse?
Sounds like a suit.
My partner in the business relationship.
My lover [D] sexualizes the whole thing.
My husband, no, not [C#] even going there.
My wife, not great either.
Pat's suggestion was she who must be [N] obeyed, but I KO'd that.
I just don't know quite how to react.
And even I didn't [E] know how to react.
So we both kind of joked a lot about it.
Because we were uncomfortable.
But the next morning we went to Starbucks.
And we ordered [A] lattes.
And the guy said, are you here for the science fiction convention?
[Gm] And I said, no, we're getting married to each [N] other.
And he went, oh, lattes on me.
Welcome to Canada.
[Gm] This was weird.
All [E] that week, people treated us like we were normal.
It was so strange.
It felt so abnormal.
You can't tell you.
So we found ourselves with several science fiction writers as witnesses,
everybody [F] wearing Hawaiian shirts,
standing in front of a very [E] nice minister.
And we were still kind of awkward about it, a little embarrassed.
And we kept saying to each other, look,
[D] it's a good thing politically.
We should count ourselves.
But really, [B] what does it mean?
It's a piece of paper.
I mean, we've been together 16 years.
It's just [E] a piece of paper.
So imagine our surprise when the ceremony finished
and Malcolm St.
Clair said, you are now married.
And we both burst into tears.
And we looked at each other and we were both thinking the same thing.
It's just a piece of paper.
It's not [B] that big a deal.
And yet we found ourselves weeping all the way out of the courthouse,
all the way down the courthouse steps.
And later on when we were talking about it,
we realized that all of our lives together,
we had assumed we would be outlaws.
All of our lives together,
we had assumed that people would stare at us if we held hands,
that people would [B] make fun of us if we said we loved each other.
We just assumed that because that's the way it had always been.
And yet, for the [Em] first time in our life,
we not only had a marriage certificate,
but we had the weight of an [E] entire country's legal system
standing behind us saying, you know what?
You're just like everybody else.
And that was awe-inspiring and it was profound
and it was astonishing and that's why we came [D] home.
We're married in London [E] but not in New York.
[B]
[N] [E] Spain says we're kosher, the states say we're [Am] pork.
They didn't get that in Nashville.
[C]
[D] [A] The judge [D] said amen.
And when [F#m] we got home we [A] were single [D] again.
It's hard being married and living in sin.
[C]
[Em] Sometimes [D] I forget just [A] which state I am [A] in.
[Gm] [D]
I'd be a [D] mess,
[Em] trying to [A] figure out what [D] to confess.
My past Sweden [D] says I've got a wife.
[Em] Amsterdam [D] tells me I'm partnered [A] for life.
[A] Back in America, [D]
land of the free,
I'm [Em] a threat to [F#m] the national [A] security.
[D]
[D]
If I were a frog,
[C] [E]
here's what [D] I would say.
[Em] It's hard [D] being green.
[A]
It's hard being gay.
[D] Love has no color
and [A]
hearts have no [D] sex.
[Em] So love where [D] you can
[A] and fuck all the rest.
[F]
[N]
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So we went looking for clothes. _ _ _ _
_ Picture two middle-aged women, _ chunky.
_ _ _ _ _ It was very relieved to have jobs that don't require wearing dresses. _ _ _
Going into the local Macy's outlet store _ and meeting up with our personal [E] shopper, _ _ _ Luelle.
_ _ He says, what's the occasion?
_ And Pat says, I'm getting married.
And I say simultaneously, I'm getting married.
And Luelle says, I should do some [G] special zealots.
_ _ _ _ And so Pat said, [E] no, we are getting married to each other.
[A] And Luelle never missed a beat.
She said, bless your heart.
_ [B] And Pat says, [D#] come over here and meet these two [E] nice little old ladies.
_ _ _ To each other.
[N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Huh. _ _ _
_ _ Huh. _ _ _ _
We went through the bridal dresses in about an eighth of a second. _
_ _ We went through the regular [B] dresses in another eighth of a second.
[A] _ We went through the suits.
We went through the suits for women who are lawyers and don't want to look [Em] like men but need to [F#m] nevertheless present that look.
_ We [A] went through everything and to, Pat was [N] saying that she thought maybe she wouldn't get married after all.
_ _ _ When I spied a row of Hawaiian shirts.
And so that was that.
We showed up in Toronto a month later with our Hawaiian shirts in tow.
[A] _ _ _
_ _ At the [E] science fiction convention. _ _
[F#] So we check into the hotel.
_ And the woman behind the desk says, oh, are you here for the convention?
And Pat says, no, we're here to get married [C] to each other.
And the woman goes, isn't that wonderful?
We'll give you the bridal suite.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And I have to confess, as politically incorrect as this will sound,
_ _ [E] it felt weird. _ _
_ It just feels weird.
I mean, what do I call her?
My spouse?
Sounds like a suit. _
My partner in the business relationship.
My lover [D] sexualizes the whole thing.
_ My husband, no, not [C#] even going there.
_ My wife, not great either. _
Pat's suggestion was she who must be [N] obeyed, but I KO'd that. _
_ I _ _ _ just don't know quite how to react.
And even I didn't [E] know how to react.
So we both kind of joked a lot about it.
Because we were uncomfortable.
_ But the next morning we went to Starbucks.
_ And we ordered [A] lattes.
And the guy said, are you here for the science fiction convention?
[Gm] And I said, no, we're getting married to each [N] other.
And he went, oh, lattes on me.
Welcome to Canada. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] This was weird.
_ All [E] that week, people treated us like we were normal. _
It was so strange.
_ _ It felt so abnormal.
_ You can't tell you.
_ So we found ourselves with several science fiction writers as witnesses,
everybody [F] wearing Hawaiian shirts,
_ _ standing in front of a very [E] nice minister.
_ _ _ And we were still kind of awkward about it, a little embarrassed.
And we kept saying to each other, look,
[D] it's a good thing politically.
_ We should count ourselves.
_ _ But really, [B] what does it mean?
It's a piece of paper.
I mean, we've been together 16 years.
It's just [E] a piece of paper.
_ So imagine our surprise when the ceremony finished
and Malcolm St.
Clair said, _ you are now married. _ _
And we both burst into tears.
_ _ And we looked at each other and we were both thinking the same thing.
It's just a piece of paper.
It's not [B] that big a deal.
And yet we found ourselves weeping all the way out of the courthouse,
all the way down the courthouse steps.
_ _ _ And later on when we were talking about it,
we realized that _ all of our lives together,
we had assumed we would be outlaws.
_ All of our lives together,
we had assumed _ that people would stare at us if we held hands,
that people would [B] make fun of us if we said we loved each other.
We just assumed that because that's the way it had always been.
And yet, for the [Em] first time in our life,
_ we not only had a marriage certificate,
but we had the weight of an [E] entire country's legal system
standing behind us saying, you know what? _ _ _
You're just like everybody else.
_ And that was awe-inspiring and it was profound
and it was astonishing and that's why we came [D] home. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
We're married in London [E] but not in New York.
[B] _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ [E] Spain says we're kosher, the states say we're [Am] pork. _ _
_ They didn't get that in Nashville.
_ [C] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] The judge [D] said amen.
And _ when [F#m] we got home we [A] were single [D] again. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It's hard being married and living in sin.
[C] _ _
[Em] _ _ Sometimes [D] I forget just [A] which state I am [A] in. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ I'd be a [D] mess, _
[Em] _ trying to [A] figure out what [D] to confess. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
My past _ Sweden [D] says I've got a wife.
_ [Em] Amsterdam [D] tells me I'm partnered [A] for life.
_ _ [A] Back in America, [D] _
land of the free,
I'm [Em] a threat to [F#m] the national [A] security.
_ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ If I were a frog,
_ _ [C] _ _ [E] _
here's what [D] I would say. _ _ _ _
[Em] It's hard [D] being green.
_ [A] _
It's hard being gay. _ _ _ _
_ [D] Love has no color
and [A]
hearts have no [D] sex.
_ _ [Em] So love where [D] you can
_ [A] and fuck all the rest. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Picture two middle-aged women, _ chunky.
_ _ _ _ _ It was very relieved to have jobs that don't require wearing dresses. _ _ _
Going into the local Macy's outlet store _ and meeting up with our personal [E] shopper, _ _ _ Luelle.
_ _ He says, what's the occasion?
_ And Pat says, I'm getting married.
And I say simultaneously, I'm getting married.
And Luelle says, I should do some [G] special zealots.
_ _ _ _ And so Pat said, [E] no, we are getting married to each other.
[A] And Luelle never missed a beat.
She said, bless your heart.
_ [B] And Pat says, [D#] come over here and meet these two [E] nice little old ladies.
_ _ _ To each other.
[N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Huh. _ _ _
_ _ Huh. _ _ _ _
We went through the bridal dresses in about an eighth of a second. _
_ _ We went through the regular [B] dresses in another eighth of a second.
[A] _ We went through the suits.
We went through the suits for women who are lawyers and don't want to look [Em] like men but need to [F#m] nevertheless present that look.
_ We [A] went through everything and to, Pat was [N] saying that she thought maybe she wouldn't get married after all.
_ _ _ When I spied a row of Hawaiian shirts.
And so that was that.
We showed up in Toronto a month later with our Hawaiian shirts in tow.
[A] _ _ _
_ _ At the [E] science fiction convention. _ _
[F#] So we check into the hotel.
_ And the woman behind the desk says, oh, are you here for the convention?
And Pat says, no, we're here to get married [C] to each other.
And the woman goes, isn't that wonderful?
We'll give you the bridal suite.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And I have to confess, as politically incorrect as this will sound,
_ _ [E] it felt weird. _ _
_ It just feels weird.
I mean, what do I call her?
My spouse?
Sounds like a suit. _
My partner in the business relationship.
My lover [D] sexualizes the whole thing.
_ My husband, no, not [C#] even going there.
_ My wife, not great either. _
Pat's suggestion was she who must be [N] obeyed, but I KO'd that. _
_ I _ _ _ just don't know quite how to react.
And even I didn't [E] know how to react.
So we both kind of joked a lot about it.
Because we were uncomfortable.
_ But the next morning we went to Starbucks.
_ And we ordered [A] lattes.
And the guy said, are you here for the science fiction convention?
[Gm] And I said, no, we're getting married to each [N] other.
And he went, oh, lattes on me.
Welcome to Canada. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] This was weird.
_ All [E] that week, people treated us like we were normal. _
It was so strange.
_ _ It felt so abnormal.
_ You can't tell you.
_ So we found ourselves with several science fiction writers as witnesses,
everybody [F] wearing Hawaiian shirts,
_ _ standing in front of a very [E] nice minister.
_ _ _ And we were still kind of awkward about it, a little embarrassed.
And we kept saying to each other, look,
[D] it's a good thing politically.
_ We should count ourselves.
_ _ But really, [B] what does it mean?
It's a piece of paper.
I mean, we've been together 16 years.
It's just [E] a piece of paper.
_ So imagine our surprise when the ceremony finished
and Malcolm St.
Clair said, _ you are now married. _ _
And we both burst into tears.
_ _ And we looked at each other and we were both thinking the same thing.
It's just a piece of paper.
It's not [B] that big a deal.
And yet we found ourselves weeping all the way out of the courthouse,
all the way down the courthouse steps.
_ _ _ And later on when we were talking about it,
we realized that _ all of our lives together,
we had assumed we would be outlaws.
_ All of our lives together,
we had assumed _ that people would stare at us if we held hands,
that people would [B] make fun of us if we said we loved each other.
We just assumed that because that's the way it had always been.
And yet, for the [Em] first time in our life,
_ we not only had a marriage certificate,
but we had the weight of an [E] entire country's legal system
standing behind us saying, you know what? _ _ _
You're just like everybody else.
_ And that was awe-inspiring and it was profound
and it was astonishing and that's why we came [D] home. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
We're married in London [E] but not in New York.
[B] _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ [E] Spain says we're kosher, the states say we're [Am] pork. _ _
_ They didn't get that in Nashville.
_ [C] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] The judge [D] said amen.
And _ when [F#m] we got home we [A] were single [D] again. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It's hard being married and living in sin.
[C] _ _
[Em] _ _ Sometimes [D] I forget just [A] which state I am [A] in. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ I'd be a [D] mess, _
[Em] _ trying to [A] figure out what [D] to confess. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
My past _ Sweden [D] says I've got a wife.
_ [Em] Amsterdam [D] tells me I'm partnered [A] for life.
_ _ [A] Back in America, [D] _
land of the free,
I'm [Em] a threat to [F#m] the national [A] security.
_ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ If I were a frog,
_ _ [C] _ _ [E] _
here's what [D] I would say. _ _ _ _
[Em] It's hard [D] being green.
_ [A] _
It's hard being gay. _ _ _ _
_ [D] Love has no color
and [A]
hearts have no [D] sex.
_ _ [Em] So love where [D] you can
_ [A] and fuck all the rest. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _