Crazy Mixed-Up Kid
The Smithereens
Especially For You [1986]
Standard tuning; CD is downtuned one half step to Eb
A x02220
G 320003
E 022100
D xx0232
F#m 244222
F 133211
[INTRO]
GTR-1 plays A — G, A — G
GTR-2 plays Riff 1:
A G A G
e|--0-0--0-0-0-0-0-----0-0--0-0-0-0-0---| Riff 1
B|--3/5--3-2-3-2-3-----3/5--3-2-3-2-3---|
G|--------------------------------------| play twice for intro
D|--------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------|
[Verse 1]
A D E A D E
My friends tell me she’ll be back some day.
A D E A D E
Until then, I'll have to find a way.
D E A F#m
I've tried so very hard to be someone she'd fall in love with.
D E A F#m
I cry my eyes out. She's no good, it's true, and now I know it.
D E A G A G (with riff 1)
I guess she's just a crazy, mixed-up kid.
[Verse 2]
A D E A D E
Everybody says she'll come around.
A D E A D E
Until she does, you know I won't be found.
D E A F#m
I've tried so very hard to be someone she'd fall in love with.
D E A F#m
I cry my eyes out. She's no good, it's true, and now I know it.
D E A G A G (with riff 1)
I guess she's just a crazy, mixed-up kid.
[BRIDGE]
G E G E
I won't compromise. I won't look in her eyes.
F D F D
It seems unfair. That girls like her don't even care.
[Verse 3]
A D E A D E
My friends tell me she’ll be back some day.
A D E A D E
Until then, I'll have to find a way.
D E A F#m
I've tried so very hard to be someone she'd fall in love with.
D E A F#m
It hurts to love a girl when she don't even wanna know you.
D E A G A G (with riff 1)
I guess she's just a crazy, mixed-up kid.
A G (with Riff 1)
Mixed-up kid.
Mixed-up kid. (repeat and fade)
Yes, I realize I’ve left out the chicken-pickin’ GTR-3 part. I can TAB that if there’s interest.