Chords for Protoje - Answer To Your Name (Alternative Version)

_ [F] I like [G] to tell you this story about a girl I know, _ or should I say used to know. _ _ _
_ 1971 in England, fresh off the plane to a date in a brick stand.
No, me never ask for a flight, two [F] months, no, no [G] telegram rides.
[F] Hey, she send taxi [G] to I, she gone to some [D] house party tonight.
So, [Dm] call the office, I like, [G] make a few calls, get a couple invites.
[F] In other place me [G] gone, never left [F] the yard for a day, me [G] gone.
Right up [F] front to the stairway [G] pond, you can tell say a [F] she by the way she [G] gone.
She that [F] Christine, Christine [G] a crystal, try all of [F] the money still never [G] respond.
I just [F] can't get a free from a [G] dispense, man hand [F] ground in a pond stay a six month.
Whoa, tough guys beside [G] her, clean her [F] reply when I say I [G] to her.
So, they block [F] I bring violence in [G] the party, they remind [F] this kind of I know her.
So, me turn to walk [G] away, but a little voice [F] in me head starts talking [G] to me.
[F] So, me walk right past [G] her, put the song [F] to the mic and ask [G] her.
_ Girl, girl, _ _ why won't you answer to your [F] name?
Huh?
[G] _
_ [D] Girl, [G] girl, why won't [D] you answer to [G] your [Dm] name?
[G] Outside the way, [Am] cause girl I know you see [F] me.
[G] And you know I see [C] you too, so [G] what is it [F] gonna be?
[G] Tell me [F] what you wanna do, what's with this great mystery?
[G] After all that [F] we've been through, now [G] you're refusing [F] to look my [A] way.
_ My [G] little [F] darling, know she stay [G] sober from [F] morning.
Where she [G] move was gone palling, [F] want me make [G] it right.
So, she take [F] the flight, heard the city [G] lights calling.
From the day she been crawling, all she hear about is foreign.
[Dm] Tell me you're [G] hiddling, now when me [F] freaking see the plans them [G] sinking.
Deep [F] new year [G] rich, accent upon [F] her portraitous feet.
[G] Gone gone gone, [Dm] dem a want to commit, [G] like sheep in the fields [F] upon Arby's street.
[G] Late, but [F] young me can't miss a date.
[G] Now, I'm about to leave, [F] cause I'm on and I [G] leave.
But, girl, [F] me say walk right past your [D] beast.
And me look in your eye and [G] ask you this.
Girl, girl, girl, why won't [D] you answer to [G] your name?
[Dm] _ [G] Never turn your head to look my way. _
_ _ _ Why won't you answer to your [Dm] name?
[A] Huh?
_ Girl, [G] I know you see me.
And you know [F] I see you too, so what [G] is it [F] gonna be?
[G] Tell me what you wanna do, what's with this great [F] mystery?
I _ [G] suppose that we [D] been through, now you're [G] refusing [Dm] to look my [G] way.
Hey!
Uh!
[F] _ _ [G] Now, [D] you know what I'm talking [G] about. _
[F] Girl, [G] see you out on that class, she don't know.
Huh? _
But we don't take no solid, [F] no funk in her, no joke.
[G] _
[F] Try to [G] hit me and you won't love.
_ Girl, why you do it?
[F] Girl, why [G] you do it?
[F] No, that [G] not sweet.
[F] No, [G] it not sweet.
[F] Girl, [G] why you do it?
[D] No, [G] it not sweet.
[D] Girl, [G] why you do it?
[F] No, you [G] shouldn't do it.
What make you do it?
What make you do it?
[D] No, [G] that not sweet.
[F] No, [G] it not sweet.
Girl, why you do it?
_ [D] No, it not sweet.
Say, why you do it?
[Dm] No, you [A] shouldn't do it.
No. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Why won't you answer to your name? _ _
_ Yeah, yeah.
Why won't you answer to your name?
[Dm] _ _ [G] _ Check, check, check, check.
[F] _ This girl loving all fun time, you [G] know.
Time, time, [F] time, time, [G] time.
Acting like [D] she wasn't mine, you know.
You know [F] you were mine [G] same way.
But you [F] so unkind, you [G] know, like.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ Every time.
[G] _
_ [F] _ _ [G] Why [F] won't you?
Why [G] won't you?
_ [F] _ _ [G] Why won't you?
Why won't you?
_ [F] _ _ [G] Why won't you?
Why won't you?
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