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She Only Loves Me When I'm There

Ball Park Music

RockMedium for beginners11 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Dm××
Am×
F
C×
E7
G
D××
A×
E
G#Diagram coming soon
FmDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Capo on 4th fret
              
 
 
 
 
 
Intro:  E4   Am4   F4    C4 
        E4   Am4   F4    C4 (hold the last chord) 
 
verse 1: Organ 
 
Am4                C4 
Guildford, Guildford holy mother of  
Am4        C4 
Helen, Jesus in the architraves 
Am4              C4                 Dm(2)   Am(2)    F    C   
Waiting, waiting, comes to take all my misery away, at least for now 
E7(2)         Am(2)     F           C4 
Kelvin get a holy vigor we can work it out 
 
hide this tab Riff: 
 
   Am4          C4 
 
G|------0h2-0-----------------| 
D|------------2-0----------0--|   x2 
A|-0-0------------3-3--3-3----| 
E|----------------------------| 
 
 
verse 2 
 
Am4         C 
It must be 5 years ago now 
Am                  C 
Skulking home one public holiday 
Am                   C 
Eighteen, eighteen, baby brains 
Dm(2)                      Am          F                 C 
Got the nervous twitching algorithms right beneath the cheese 
      E7(2)         Am(2)             F           C 
Yeah, half expecting knuckles now to bring me to my knees 
 
 
 
E4    F            C 
If she wants this to be 
               E    
She'll have to see the things I have had to see 
Am             Am/G#               G 
Maybe she would know, maybe she would care 
G                            *(2nd time replace this with E) 
She only loves me when I'm there 
 
Riff x2 
 
verse 3: 
 
Am4         C 
It must be five years ago now 
Am                  C 
My trimester public holiday 
Am                  C 
Eighteen crack these oysters open 
Dm(2)                      Am          F                 C 
She can be forgiven but she doesn't go away 
      E7(2)         Am(2)      F       C 
Yeah, see her on the bus, man, see her everyday 
 
Chorus 
 
Bridge: 
Am4            F             C          E7 
I don't want to live like this anymore, kid 
Am              Fm                 C     C 
I don't want to live like this anymore 
 
(Riff) 
 
                          (Riff) 
She only Loves me when I?m There 
                           (Riff) 
She only loves me when I'm there 
 
Dm(2)              Am          F               C 
Nervous stitching algorithms right beneath the trees 
      E74         Am(2)    F                     C 
Yeah half expecting knuckles now to bring me to my knees 
 
          
 

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Chord set

Dm · Am · F · C · E7 · G · D · A · E · G# · Fm

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.