The Avett Brothers - Pretty Girl From Michigan

C Em
can you not see what you’ve done?
F G
you gave your heart away like that .
C Em
i didn’t want to fall in love ,
F G
with anyone but you , dear .
C Em
i can still hear the song ,
F G
the melody behind the kiss ,
C Em
you gave me , you were wrong ,
F G
i was right so i walked away ,
C Em
and left you there , alone ,
F G
i got so tired of talking on the
C Em
telephone ,
F G
how many times would we say the words , “good bye?”

riff *
C Em
i made mistakes , and one ,
F G
was telling you that i’d be there when
C Em
telling time ( ? ) had come ,
F G
i should have said i didn’t care .
C Em
all the time i would have saved ,
F G
if i had been less willing
C Em
to accommodate ,
F G
you’d been a little less likely to cry .

riff *

Am G
you go back to the high life ,
Am G
and i’ll go back to the low .
F
i should have known ,
G
but now i know .
C Em
there’ll be no word from you ,
F G
describing how it felt to go through
C Em
what i put you through
F G
it all makes perfect sense
C Em
the way you cut the rope
F G
that kept you dangling from such
C Em
pitiful amounts of hope ,
F G
i would have cut it , too .

riff

i’m not much of a tab reader , i go by chords and embellish off of them . hold the C chord
down , then pluck the a string ( third fret ) twice , followed by the D ( second fret ) once ,
then the open G string , then G string , second fret ( with your middle finger ) . then do
the same thing in reverse , adding an optional pull – of on the D string .

end on C .