Quittin Time

#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author’s own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study scholarship or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# QUITTIN’ TIME (by Robb Royer & Roger Linn; performed by Mary-Chapin Carpenter) -----------------------------------    Okay a couple notes about this song.  First of all the electric guitar plays this song in D and Mary-Chapin plays the acoustic guitar in C capoed up two frets (as I’ve written it here).    Don’t worry too much about the bass notes in the chorus; they were just so obvious I had to put them in.    The little riff at the end of the lines (after "tell me what and use your index finger to do the first fret on the B string.  (Of course it’s Asus4-Asus4-A if you play it in D.)    Each chord is half a measure.  Capo 2.    One more thing: in her 1994 Acoustic Tour MCC performed a slowed-down version of this song.  The chords were pretty much the same but it was finger-picked instead of strummed and there was an E or E7 chord between the G and Am right before "But you pretend..."  Try it. [intro]                                                                       Hey baby tell me what we’re gonna do               It’s getting crazy and I need some help from you           We were so connected that you were a part of me       Now I feel an emptiness right to the heart of me       But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine   And though we should be at an end It’s so hard admittin’ when it’s quittin’ time      [instrumental]                  Hey baby I’m running out of things to say            (         ) Please don’t hate me this feeling just won’t go away (         ) Now we’re spending all our time caught in fantasy   (               ) Just trying to keep in mind the way it used to be     (               ) [Chorus]                                                                   [Guitar solo same chords as chorus]                                       [Repeat second verse]                                                      But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine (              ) And though we should be at an end                     (      ) It’s so hard admittin’ when it’s quittin’ time        (      ) But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine (              ) And though we should be at an end                     (      ) It’s so hard admittin’ when it’s quittin’...          (    ) (So hard admittin’ when it’s quittin’...)             (    ) So hard admittin’ when it’s quittin’ time             (      ) - Adam Schneider schneidebox.com