Chords for The pretenders - 977 (accoustic)

We played this song on our was it 90 1995 I think tour [N] across America every night and
_ Every night when I try to get back to the coach and walk into the [G] parking lot.
I would always get two or three
Angry girls approaching me in the parking lot saying what was that one song about you know the one and of course I?
Knew what they were talking about, but I know I say I don't know what you're talking about and trying to get away from them
And then I was thinking well, I don't know maybe it's putting across the wrong message, and maybe we should drop that one
_ Anyway [G] a few months later.
I got a phone call from mom and
Bob Dylan always tell me don't name-drop, but I got a phone call from Jeff Buckley, and he says
_ He said you know that that one song of yours that that that song [C#] the one about the belt
He goes that's just the greatest couplet in that song.
I really love that and I thought
[F#] It's good enough for Jeff Buckley.
It's good enough for those chicks in America of course unfortunately.
They're still here, and he's not
_ Anyway, this one's called nine seven seven
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ [A] Every time I end up waking up in some hotel without [F#] my [F#m] set of keys
_ [A] Coming to remember in the way you turn me out when I [F#m] was on my knees you think that [D] was one
_ _ [F#m] Oh for [E] you, _ well, [D] I know I scored
_ 2
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] When I see the way you have to struggle just to do a [F#m] little a simple thing
I [A] feel apologetic just because I'm not particularly _
Suffering so I [D] let you take
[F#m] me _
[E] _ down I
[D] Am like your
_ [F#m] _ [E] rent a clown _ _
_ [C] _ when I saw
[Em] my _ baby cry
_ [F] _ I knew [G] that he loved me
_ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] He _ cried because [G] of me
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ He hit me [G] with his belt
_ _ _ [F] _ _
But his tears were [G] all I _ _ _
[C] _ felt
[C] When I [Am] saw my baby cry
[F] _ _ I _
[G] knew
_ _ [C] He loved me
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [A] Every time you push me back and push me back if [F#m] I attack your
attitude I
[A] Rise up to the challenge cuz I like to taste the sugar [F#m] of your violent mood [D] just like a storm
_ _ [F#m] me [E] see
_ your [D] natural
_ _ Poetry [E] to me
_ _ _ [C] _
When I saw [Em] my _ baby cry
[F] _ _ I
Knew that he [G] loved me
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ I was [G] so great
_ _ [Em] _ _ [F] He _ cried [G] because of me _ _
[Am] _ _ he hit me with [G] his belt
_ _ _ [F] _ _ But his tears [G] were all _ _ _ I [C] felt
_ [G] When I [Am] saw my baby [Am] cry [F] I
_ _ _ [G] Knew _ _
He loved [C] me
_ _ I
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
Knew
_ [G] _ _ _ _ He loved [C] me _ _ _ _ _ _