Regretting what i said — Christine Lavin

From [email protected] Tue Apr 4 02:06:27 PDT 1995 Article: 15054 of rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic Path: unixg.ubc.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!scipio.cyberstore.ca!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: [email protected] (Adam Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab,rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic,rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature Subject: TAB: "Regretting What I Said..." (Christine Lavin) Date: 4 Apr 1995 02:47:56 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 200 Sender: [email protected] Message-ID: <v01510100aba6a805cc8d@[128.101.96.157]> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu Xref: unixg.ubc.ca alt.guitar.tab:45715 rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic:15054 rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature:37291

"REGRETTING WHAT I SAID TO YOU WHEN YOU CALLED ME 11:00 ON A FRIDAY MORNING TO TELL ME THAT AT 1:00 FRIDAY AFTERNOON YOU WERE GONNA LEAVE YOUR OFFICE, GO DOWNSTAIRS, HAIL A CAB TO GO OUT TO THE AIRPORT TO CATCH A PLANE TO GO SKIING IN THE ALPS FOR TWO WEEKS; NOT THAT I WANTED TO GO WITH YOU, I WASN'T ABLE TO LEAVE TOWN, I'M NOT A VERY GOOD SKIER, I COULDN'T EXPECTYOU TO PAY MY WAY, BUT AFTER GOING OUT WITH YOU FOR THREE YEARS, I DON'T LIKE SURPRISES: A MUSICAL APOLOGY"

Yes, That's Really The Title Of The Song.

Actually In F; Capo 5.

[Use the tablature at the end of this file for chord fingerings and picking pattern.]

Spoken:

standing in a phone booth on the corner of 49th and 3rd.

Intro: Arpeggio C Chord.

I didn't mean it when I said I hope the cable in the elevator Snaps when you step on board And I was joking when I said I hope you crack your head D/A D/A G - Gsus G5 And get mangled by the downstairs revolving door

And I was kidding when I said I hope the number 103 bus Hits and makes a pancake out of you I'm sorry, I'm sorry Isn't it amazing what a woman in love will do?

And I don't really want to see your taxi on the 59th street bridge Flip over and crash through the rail And I'd feel bad if at the airport you were mistaken for a local sex offender Arrested, beaten up, and thrown in jail

And I really don't want to see you getting radiation poisoning from the metal detector That all passengers on foreign and domestic flights must walk through I'm sorry, forgive me For all the mean things I said to you

You thought I didn't have a temper Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, surprise But I really don't want to see you dismembered by the marijuana- sniffing dogs D/A D/A G - Gsus G5 When a simple little nipping would suffice, would suffice

And I'm sorry that I said I hope the plane explodes in mid-air As it carries you away from me And I'm sorry that I said I hope you break both legs On the mountain while you ski

And I'm sorry for all the nasty things I said about your mother Even though we both know they're true I'm sorry, forgive me I'm swallowing my pride, I'd feel so guilty if you died F C - G C - F C. Oh I'm sorry, but I'm still mad at you.

[This tablature isn't _exactly_ what Christine plays in any particular verse; it's a combination of what I thought were the best-sounding parts from all the verses.]

...mean it when I said I hope the cable in the elevator

snaps when you step on board; And I was

joking when I said I hope you crack your head and get

D/A D/A G Gsus G5 Mangled by the downstairs revolving door; And I was

kidding when I said I hope the number 1 - 0 - 3 bus

hits and makes a pancake out of you;

I'm sorry; Forgive me; Isn't it amazing what a woman in love will do?

You thought I didn't have a temper; Ha

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, surprise! But I

Really don't want to see you dismembered by the marijuana-sniffing dogs

D/A D/A G Gsus G5 When a simple little nipping would suffice, would suffice

Adam Schneider [email protected] Minneapolis, MN If you want guitar chords for Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls, Mary Karlzen, Lucinda Williams, etc., go to my World Wide Web page: http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/hpp/acs.html