CHORDS USED

F#m7	2 4 2 2 2 2

Fmj7-5	x x 3 2 0 0

Em	0 2 2 0 0 0

Am7	x 0 2 0 1 0

Ab-5	x x 0 1 1 0

Em7	0 2 2 0 3 0

Fmaj7	x x 3 2 1 0

B	x 2 4 4 4 2

G	x x 5 4 3 x

Am	x x 7 5 5 5

C	x x x 5 5 3

Em7/11	0 0 0 0 0 0

Em9	0 2 2 0 0 2

Gmaj7	x x x 4 3 2

A	x x 7 6 5 x

Bm7/11	x 2 4 4 3 0

Bm	x 2 4 4 3 2

B+	x 2 1 0 0 2



|F#m7	|Fmj7-5	|Em	|	|

|Am7	|Ab-5	|Em7	|F#m7	|

|Fmaj7	|B	|Em	|Em	|



Am7

    Dorothy was a waitress 

Ab-5

     On the promenade

Em7     F#m7

    She worked the night shift 

Fmaj7     B

Dishwater blonde, tall and fine 

     Em

She got a lot of tips 



     Am7

Well, earlier I'd been talkin' stuff 

Ab-5

     In a violent room 

Em7     F#m7

    Fightin' with lover's past 

     Fmaj7     B

I needed someone with a quicker wit than mine 

     Em

Dorothy was fast 



Am7

    Well, I ordered - "Yeah, 

Ab-5

let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain't 2 hungry" 

Em     F#m7

   Dorothy laughed 

     Fmaj7

She said - "It sounds like a real man 2 me 

B

U're kinda cute, 

Em

U wanna take a bath?"

     Am7     Ab-5

Oh, I said - "Cool, but I'm leavin' my pants on

     Em7

Cuz I'm kinda goin' with someone" 

F#m7     Fmaj7

     She said - "Sound like a real man 2 me 

B     Em

  Mind if I turn on the    radio?" 



G

"Oh, my favorite song," she said 

     Am

And it was Joni singing, "Help me, I think I'm falling" 

G     Am

(Ring) The phone rang and she said 

G     C    G     C

"Whoever's calling can't be as cute as U" 

Em7

    Right then and there I knew I was through



Em7/11



   Em9

My pants were wet, they came off 

But she didn't see the movie 

     Fmaj7     Em9 Fmaj7 Em7

Cuz she hadn't read the book first 



  Am7     Ab-5

Instead she pretended she was blind 

     Em7     F#m7

An affliction brought on by a witch's curse 

     Fmaj7

Dorothy made me laugh 

     B     Em

I felt much better so I went back 2 the violent room 

Let me tell U what I did 



G     Am     Gmaj7

  I took another bubble bath 

G     Am    Gmaj7

  with my pants on 

G     Am     Gmaj7

  All the fighting stopped 

G     Am    Gmaj7  A Bm7/11

  Next time I'll do it sooner 

A     Bm  Am    Bm  B+

  This is the ballad of Dorothy Parker



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