Kid Gloves

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Kid Gloves by Fountains of Wayne (Collingwood/Schlesinger)

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>From the "Sink To The Bottom" CD-single

Transcribed by Graham Smith and Tim Ford

(corrections and comments welcomed at [email protected])

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Note: capo 2nd fret and play the chord shapes indicated in 3/4 time.

Normal tuning. The wah-wah is playing a D5 throughout.

Intro D Em7(1) D G/B X2

D Em7(1) D G/B

She's wearing kid gloves

D Em7(1) D G/B

Will handle me carefully

G A7

Cause I've got a history, cracked up and fragile

Bm A *G to G/F# Em7(2)

And bound to break easy

(* don't play the full bar, hit the F# note of the G/F# chord,

on the E string, on the last beat and go straight to Em7)

D Em7(1) D G/B

And if she could talk to me

D Em7(1) D G/B

What good would it do me

G A7

It's no secret where I've been and I have worn so thin

Bm Cadd9 (riff 1) D

And she can see through me

Chorus 1:

G G/F# Em A

I don't believe a word of it

G G/F# Em A

Can't come around to her now that I've heard of it

Cadd9 D

Now that her soft touch is gone

Am

She's got her kid gloves on (riff 2)

(riff 2 repeats from the end of the first chorus more or less

to the end of the song but its down in the mix and hard to tell)

D Em7(1) D G/B X2

D Em7(1) D G/B

Here is what I've found

D Em7(1) D G/B

New York just gets me down

G A7

When the going got tough, I got a bus ticket

Bm A G to G/F# Em7(2)

Back to my home town

D Em7(1) D G/B

And all the way I dreamed

D Em7(1) D G/B

Flesh wrapped in velveteen

G A7

And the road wrapped around me, the long lonely highway

Bm Cadd9 (riff 1) D

Gulped down by a Greyhound

(Chorus 1)

(Solo over chords for verse, use Emaj scale)

Chorus 2:

G G/F# Em A

I don't believe a word of it

G G/F# Em A

Can't come around to her now that I've heard of it

G G/F# Em A

Won't come around cause I'll only get hurt and it

Cadd9 D

Now that her soft touch is gone

Cadd9 D

How could she ever go on

Am D

Without her kid gloves on

Repeat D Em7(1) D G/B X6 and end on D

1231231231231 Em7 (1) Em7(2) D5

|e----------|--0--0--0---------|---3---------3--------4-|

|B----------|---3--3--3230-----|---3---------3--------2-|

|G----------|-------------2----|---0---------0--------1-|

|D----------|------------------|---2---------2--------0-|

|A--3-2-0---|------------------|---x---------2--------0-|

|E----------|------------------|---x---------0--------x-|

riff 1 riff 2 chords...

D G/B G A7 Bm A G/F# Cadd9 Em

|e----2-----3-----3-----0-----2-----0-----3-----0-----0-|

|B----3-----3-----3-----2-----3-----2-----3-----3-----0-|

|G----2-----0-----0-----0-----4-----2-----0-----0-----0-|

|D----0-----0-----0-----2-----4-----2-----0-----2-----2-|

|A----0-----2-----2-----0-----2-----0-----x-----3-----2-|

|E----x-----x-----3-----x-----2-----0-----2-----x-----0-|

...all fret positions relative to capo on second fret