Don't you dare say that
You'll braid my hair, babe
If you don't really care

Fm
You wanted me sadder
Eb
You wanted me sadder
Bb                          Ab
Fishtail, what's the matter? Ah-ah-ah

Fm
  Skipping rope in the bayou, bayou
Ab
  Slip softly in terrain
Bb                             Ab
  Not that smart, but I've got things to say
Fm
  Palm trees in black and white
Eb
  I like to watch them sway
Bb
  You're so funny
       Ab
I wish I could skinny dip inside your mind

Fm                  Eb                                Bb
  Lately, I've been thinking about how things used to be
              Ab                               Fm
Swinging in a nightgown underneath the old oak tree
             Eb                            Bb
Almost Victorian with you, you can talk to me
                 Ab
But lately I can see

                     Fm
You wanted me sadder (baby)
Eb
You wanted me sadder
          Bb    Ab
Can't you see?
    Fm                             Eb
For me, you are the one and if I'm not the one for you
          Bb     Ab
Don't you say it

Fm                                          Eb
I was on the stairs, Ella Fitzgerald in the air

Feeling hella rare
             Bb
Baby, if you care

Baby, don't you dare say
Ab
You'll braid my hair, babe

Fm                 Eb 
Don't you dare say that you'll braid my hair, babe
   Bb
If you don't really care
Ab
  You wanted me sadder

Fm
  Dancing there in the hot, hot Sun
Eb
  I know that we've got problems
Bb                       Ab
  I plan to address them another day
Fm
  Palm trees in black and white
Eb
  I see in technicolor
Bb                           Ab                                      
  Maybe I'll take my glasses off

So I stop painting red flags
Fm
Green

                  Eb                      Bb
Lately, I've been sunning in the LA river bed
                Ab                           Fm
Wearing nothing but the summer bruises on my knees
                    Eb                              Bb
I like how you talk, how you speak, how you look at me
                 Ab
But lately I can see

                     Fm
You wanted me sadder (baby)
Eb
You wanted me sadder

You wanted me sadder
          Bb    Ab
Can't you see?
    Fm                             Eb
For me, you are the one and if I'm not the one for you
          Bb     Ab
Don't you say it

Fm                                          Eb
I was on the stairs, Ella Fitzgerald in the air

Feeling hella rare
             Bb
Baby, if you care

Baby, don't you dare say
Ab
You'll braid my hair, babe

Fm                          
Baby, if you care, then

(Don't you dare say that

You'll braid my hair, see)
Eb                            Bb              Ab
Baby, don't you dare say that you really care
Eb                   Eb
  Don't you dare say that you'll braid my hair
     Bb                      Ab
When you get home tonight if you don't really care

Fm                       Eb
Yeah, don't you dare say that

You'll braid my hair, babe
   Bb                          Ab
If you don't really care, see, don't you braid my hair
             Fm              Eb  Bb
If you're not coming home to me, mmm

Ab
You want someone sadder

Fm
  Skipping rope in the bayou, bayou
Ab
  Slip softly in terrain
Bb               Ab
  Not that smart,   but I've got things to say