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Girl In The Life Magazine

Boyz II Men

R&B / SoulAdvanced for beginners12 chords

How to play it

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

Am×○○
G○○○
Fmaj7Diagram coming soon
E7○○○○
Amaj7Diagram coming soon
F#m7Diagram coming soon
G6Diagram coming soon
C×○○
BDiagram coming soon
Am7×○○○
F
Gsus4Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Intro 
|Am   G  |Fmaj7  |Am   G  |Fmaj7  | 
 
 
 Verse 1:
   Am      G            Fmaj7 
I fell in love with the girl in the picture 
Am    G          Fmaj7 
 That I used to keep 
 Am           G            Fmaj7 
Carried her 'round in the back of my pocket 
Am       G           Fmaj7 
 She was always with me 
                         E7 
I imagined that I was a man of importance 
    Fmaj7               E7 
And she had a fancy for me 
 
 
 
              Amaj7          F#m7 
And I use to dream she would call 
  G6            E7 
Crying her eyes out 
    Amaj7     Am          Fmaj7 
She had an obsession with me 
E7         Amaj7       F#m7 
I was the love of her life 
     G6          E7 
And she was all mine 
    Fmaj7        E7 
The girl in the Life magazine 
 
 
Instrumental 
|Am   G  |Fmaj7  |Am   G  |Fmaj7  | 
 
 
Verse 2:
     Am            G        Fmaj7 
The first time we met in an aisle, at the market 
Am         G        Fmaj7 
 She was staring at me 
   Am         G            Fmaj7 
I knew even then we would share something special 
Am           G          Fmaj7 
 And it was like chemistry 
                         E7 
I fell in love from the moment I saw her 
Fmaj7                             E7 
 So I took her straight home with me 
 
 
 
                      Amaj7 
And that's where I'd dream 
           F#m7      G6          E7 
She would step right out of the picture 
      Amaj7         Am           Fmaj7 
And spend the whole evening with me 
    E7          Amaj7   F#m7 
And oh how she hated to go 
 G6          E7 
Back to her picture 
     Fmaj7       E7 
The girl in the Life magazine 
 
 
Instrumental 
|Am   G  |Fmaj7  |Am   G  |Fmaj7  | 
 
 
Bridge:
C           G/B            Am7    G 
All of my friends used to laugh 
        F               Gsus4    G 
Said I was certifiably mad 
           C       G/B 
'Till the day she came 
          Am7       G 
And she blew them away 
    F                       E7 
And asked me if I'd be her man 
 
 
 
              Amaj7         F#m7 
It seems that she went and fell 
    G6           E7 
In love with my letters 
     Amaj7           Am         Fmaj7 
She says she's been looking for me 
E7           Amaj7     F#m7 
And so the story ends well 
   G6        E7 
We end up together 
    Fmaj7        E7           Am    G    Fmaj7 
The girl in the Life magazine 
                        E7 
Me and the girl in the Life magazine 
 
 
Ending 
|Am   G  |Fmaj7  |Am  |

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Chord set

Am · G · Fmaj7 · E7 · Amaj7 · F#m7 · G6 · C · B · Am7 · F · Gsus4

Practice tip

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