Chords for Mary Lambert covers Wheatus' "Teenage Dirtbag" LIVE @ Billboard

[B] Hi, I'm Mary Lambert and you're watching [E] Billboard.
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _
_ [A] [E] I was in [B] high school when I came out.
I was like 17 [E] and I heard that song and I was like
floored.
I was like, this is a lesbian love song [B] because I thought it was a woman [E] singing.
And then I found out that it was just, you know, a guy with a high [A] voice, which was [E] awesome
too.
I was so excited [B] because it captured all of those like [E] those feelings in high school,
your first love and like [A] they don't even [E] know that you exist and [B] then they do know you [E] exist
and it captured that time for me, you know, that first [A] love time.
Her _
[E] name is Noel.
[B] _ [E] _ I have a [A] dream [E] about her.
She rings [B] my bell.
[E] Got gym [A] class in half [E] an
hour.
Oh, how [B] she rocks.
[E] In kids and tube [A] socks.
[E] But she [A] doesn't know [E] who I am.
_ [A] _ [E] And
she [A] doesn't give [E] a damn [B] about it.
[E] Cause I'm just [B] a teenage [E] _ [A] dirtbag baby.
[E] Yeah, I'm just
[B] _ [E] a teenage [A] dirtbag baby.
[E] Listen [B] to her.
[E] Maiden [A] may be [E] with me.
[B] _ _ And [E] her [B] boyfriend's a jerk.
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] He'd simply [B] kick [E] my ass if [A] he knew the [E] truth.
He lives on [B] my block.
[E] And he drives an [A] _ IROC. _
[E] But he [A] doesn't know [E] who I _ _ [A]
[E] am.
And he doesn't [A] give [E] a damn [B] about me.
[E] Cause I'm [B] just a [E] teenage
[A] dirtbag baby.
[E] Yeah, I'm [B] just a teenage [E] _ [A] dirtbag baby.
[E] Listen [B] to her.
[E] Maiden [A] may be [E] with me.
[B] Oh, _ man, _ [E] I feel [B] like mold.
[E] It's prom [A] night and I am [E] lonely.
Lo and behold, _ she's walking [A] [E] over to me.
This must [Bm] be fake.
[E] My lip starts [A] to shake.
[E] How [A] does she know [E] who I _
_ [A] am?
[E] And why does [A] she give [E] a damn [B] about me?
I've got [E] two tickets [B] to Iron [E] Maiden, [A] baby.
[E] Come with [B] me Friday.
[E] Don't [A] say maybe.
[E] I'm [B] just a [E] teenage [A] dirtbag baby [E] like [B] you.
_ _ [E] I mean, yeah, _ [B] _ _
[E] _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] [E] no, she doesn't know what she's [A] missing.
You're missing, [E] you're missing, you're missing, [B] you're missing, you're missing, [E] you're missing me.
[A] _ _ [E] _ I'm just a [B]
[E] teenage dirtbag [A] baby [E] like you.
[B] _
_ _ The _ [E] _ _
only thing I know [B] how to do is make things sad.
[E] So that was easy.
[A] [E] It's like it just accessed that part of my voice that was sort [B] of like, you know, pleading in [E] there.
And it just and I loved it so [A] much.
I think when that's compounded with, [E] you know, loving something and having [B] it fit into your, you know, in your voice.
And [F] I can't [C] change even [G] if I try.
Even [F] if I [G] wanted to.
I started writing songs when I was like four, you know, to my beanie babies.
And I think there's a point to when I was about [F] 13 and I was like, I'm good at [C] this.
And I went [G] to my mom and I was like, Mom, I'm ready to be famous.
I think I need an [F] agent.
And she was like, hell no.
[C] But she was like, well, you could go [G] do coffee house shows.
I called up Starbucks and I was like, do you need an in-house musician?
I was like a 13 year old.
And the manager there was like happened to be a composer and was very kind.
And he was like, well, I'll come in on you.
Why don't you come and audition?
And I played him some songs and I think it was he was genuinely, you know, taken [C] aback.
And it was like, [G] OK, why don't you [C] play every Friday night?
And so I had [G] I had like a gig from like 13 to 15.
So it got to be something that I felt really confident [F] in.
I call you baby.
[C] Like four years ago is like when [G] when that whole mind switch happened, putting [F] my, you know, my best foot forward [C] and really [G] trying to [F] to make it and be successful in what I wanted to do.
During that time, I like I had [C] been sleeping in my car [G] and I didn't have a bed.
Then I was [Em] working three jobs [F] and then I got a call to do Same Love.
[C] I was still working three jobs at that [G] point.
So this has literally been [C] a year and a half.
And so [F] to go from [Fm] that point [C] right before that phone [G] call and then to be here now, to be at the VMAs, you know, the [F] VMAs and talking [C] about the Grammys, like all of this [G] stuff.
It's like it's not real.
It doesn't feel real.
She keeps [F] me [C] warm.
[G] She keeps me warm.
[E] The beauty of [C] seeing women of all demographics, of [G] all backgrounds singing, she keeps me warm and not caring that it's [F] a female pronoun and that I [Am] sing it because I'm gay.
Nobody [G] cares.
I thought I was sure people were going to care and they're going to [Am] like change the words.
Nobody cares.
They're singing it because [G] it's because it's about love and it's a universal truth.
That just gave me so much [F] strength of what what I can do [Am] on a bigger scale, on a bigger [G] platform. _
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