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Steely Dan - Negative Girl Chords

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Negative Girl Chords

(ver. 2)
Steely Dan
|Gm7                |        %          |Ebm7               |        %        |
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|F11                |        %          |
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|C#m9               |        %          |C#m7               |        %        |
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VERSE 1
      G/C  E/C
She's lost     she's late
                              Bm/E
She's zooming on a couch some where
   G/C   E/C
Or high      or home
                             F13
I'm not supposed to call her there
  C/Bb
I wait I  smoke
  C/F
I stare into my coke
     C/Bb        Am11
It's happening a gain
Bbm9           Bbm6           C7sus4/G    C7+9   Abmaj7   Ab6
     I tell my self that it's over    and done, a men
 
 
VERSE 2
Gbmaj7   Fmaj7 Emaj7-5      G/C  E/C
                        Her skin       like milk
                               E11
It's like she's never seen the sun
     G/C    E/C
Some hearts       to crunch
                         F13
Is more like her idea of fun
  C/Bb
I know  she's ill
    C/F
I'm cruising for a spill
    C/Bb             Am11
I'm hanging just the same
Bbm9           Bbm6      C7sus4/G
     I need to be in the heat
       C7+9       Abmaj7   Ab6
Of her cold white flame
 
  ^ ^   ^        ^ ^      ^
Gbmaj7 Fmaj7    Emaj7-5  Ebmaj7 ....
 
   ^ ^     ^
Ebmaj7-5   D/Eb
 
CHORUS:
Dadd9
Another negative girl
                   Bm9
At the edge of the frame
   G#m7      C6
De liciously toxic
      G7               Dadd9/C   Ebmaj7      Dadd9/C
The o rig inal classic thing     more of the same
 
|Ebm9               |        %          |        %          |        %         |
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BRIDGE
      Gmaj7/A
She's in the zone
E11
Crying on the phone
  G/A      G13       Cmaj7
I need you here
Am7            C9           Am7
    I'm on the street again
           D7           F#m7        B7+5+9     Gmaj7   G6
Staggering out into the burn of the brain dead dawn
      Fmaj7           F/C#  F+5
To ar rive in time to find  her
 
|Gmaj7              |Fmmaj7    Fm6   |
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 gone                              She's
 
 
 G/C  E/C
 on       the train
                           E11
To somewhere up by Fordham Road
    G/C   E/C
Her rep       tile brain
                                F13
Locked down and ready in combat mode
     C/Bb
Some cash  a key
     C/F
This guy she has to see
  C/Bb             Am11
A doctor friend up town
Bbm9           Bbm6        C7sus4/G    C7+9       Abmaj7   Ab6
     And maybe she gets to me when she comes back down
 
 
  ^ ^   ^       ^ ^      ^
Gbmaj7 Fmaj7    Emaj7-5  Ebmaj7 ....
 
   ^ ^     ^
Ebmaj7-5   D/Eb
 
 
CHORUS:
D          Dsus2
   Another negative girl
                    Bm9
Spinning out of the frame
   G#m7      C6
Ex quisitely limpid
      G7              Dadd9/C    Ebmaj7      Dadd9/C
The o riginal classic thing      more of the same
 
[Vibraphone]
 
|D9                 |D9                 |D9                 |D9              |
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|D9                 |D9                 |F9                 |F9              |
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VERSE 3
  C/Bb
A goof  a buzz
   C/F
If that is what it was
     C/Bb          Am11
Then how do you ex plain
Bbm9            Bbm6
    The way she looks when she's
C7sus4/G           C7+9
Dragging me out to dance with her
Gm/F         Fm/Eb Em/D  Dbmaj7
      In the sum   mer   rain
 
^ ^    ^         ^ ^      ^
Gbmaj7 Fmaj7     Emaj7-5  Ebmaj7 ....
 
   ^ ^     ^
Ebmaj7-5   D/Eb
 
 
CHORUS:
D          Dsus2
   Another negative girl
                   Bm9
At the edge of the frame
   G#m7         C6
Ex hausting and luscious
      G7              Dadd9/C    Ebmaj7      Dadd9/C   Ebmaj7      Dadd9/C
The o riginal classic thing      more of the same      more of the same
 
CODA
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                                                                         ..repeat and fade
            
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