Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Song: The Girl From Cincinnati
Verse
[F#m] [C#m]
Took the Continental Trailways
[Bm] [A]
'Cause I didn't have the fare
[Bm] [F#m] [Bm] [F#m]
To get from Cincinnati to Los Angeles by air
Verse
[F#m] [C#m]
The guy who said he'd meet me
[Bm] [A]
In a shiny limousine
[Bm] [F#m]
With a contract in his pocket
[Bm] [F#m]
Turned out to be a queen
Verse
[F#m] [C#m]
He could not see my body
[Bm] [A]
Or appreciate my good looks
[F#m] [Bm]
Had I fallen for some story
[F#m] [Bsus2] [Bm]
That I read in all of the books
Verse
[D] [Dmaj7]
But I ain't, goin' back
[D] [Dmaj7]
To the bottom side of the tracks
[D] [Dmaj7]
No, no, and I ain't, goin' back
[D] [Dmaj7]
To the bottom side of the tracks
[D] [Dmaj7]
No I ain't goin' back
[Bm]
To Cincinnati
Verse
[Bm] [Bbm]
So I got myself an agent
[Am] [G#m]
With a roll of dollar bills
[G] [Bm]
And a Beverly type mansion
[G] [Bm]
In the middle of the hills
Verse
[Bm] [Bbm]
I was friendly with producers
[Am] [G#m]
And was heading out with the stars
[G] [Bm]
I played the backseat heroine
[G] [Bm]
In a thousand different cars
Verse
[Bm] [Bbm]
From Cavalier to Playboy
[Am] [G#m]
To the Johnny Carson show
[G] [Bm]
To holding up some dogfood
[G] [F#m]
For a firm in Idaho
Verse
[F#m] [Fm]
I've a screen-test every weekend
[Em] [D#m]
And I'm constantly on call
[Bm]
I'll be twenty-five next summer
[F#m]
And thirty-five next fall
Verse
[D] [Dmaj7]
But I ain't, goin' back
[D] [Dmaj7]
To the bottom side of the track
[D] [Dmaj7]
No, no, and I ain't, goin' back
[D] [Dmaj7]
To the bottom side of the track
[D]
You'll never get me to go back
[Dmaj7]
Ain't goin' back
To Cincinnati
