Song:	THE BALLAD OF DOROTHY PARKER
Artist:	PRINCE
Album:	SIGN O THE TIMES
Tab:	LUNAR PIPER

CHORDS USED
F#m7	2 4 2 2 2 2
Fmj7-5	x x 3 2 0 0
Em	0 2 2 0 0 0
Am7	x 0 2 0 1 0
Ab-5	x x 0 1 1 0
Em7	0 2 2 0 3 0
Fmaj7	x x 3 2 1 0
B	x 2 4 4 4 2
G	x x 5 4 3 x
Am	x x 7 5 5 5
C	x x x 5 5 3
Em7/11	0 0 0 0 0 0
Em9	0 2 2 0 0 2
Gmaj7	x x x 4 3 2
A	x x 7 6 5 x
Bm7/11	x 2 4 4 3 0
Bm	x 2 4 4 3 2
B+	x 2 1 0 0 2

|F#m7	|Fmj7-5	|Em	|	|
|Am7	|Ab-5	|Em7	|F#m7	|
|Fmaj7	|B	|Em	|Em	|

Am7
    Dorothy was a waitress 
Ab-5
     On the promenade
Em7                      F#m7
    She worked the night shift 
Fmaj7                      B
Dishwater blonde, tall and fine 
          Em
She got a lot of tips 

         Am7
Well, earlier I'd been talkin' stuff 
Ab-5
     In a violent room 
Em7                       F#m7
    Fightin' with lover's past 
         Fmaj7                      B
I needed someone with a quicker wit than mine 
            Em
Dorothy was fast 

Am7
    Well, I ordered - "Yeah, 
Ab-5
let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain't 2 hungry" 
Em                 F#m7
   Dorothy laughed 
                    Fmaj7
She said - "It sounds like a real man 2 me 
B
U're kinda cute, 
Em
U wanna take a bath?"
              Am7                      Ab-5
Oh, I said - "Cool, but I'm leavin' my pants on
        Em7
Cuz I'm kinda goin' with someone" 
F#m7             Fmaj7
     She said - "Sound like a real man 2 me 
B                       Em
  Mind if I turn on the    radio?" 

G
"Oh, my favorite song," she said 
                                                 Am
And it was Joni singing, "Help me, I think I'm falling" 
G                             Am
(Ring) The phone rang and she said 
G             C    G        C
"Whoever's calling can't be as cute as U" 
Em7
    Right then and there I knew I was through

Em7/11

   Em9
My pants were wet, they came off 
But she didn't see the movie 
                        Fmaj7      Em9 Fmaj7 Em7
Cuz she hadn't read the book first 

  Am7                     Ab-5
Instead she pretended she was blind 
      Em7                                   F#m7
An affliction brought on by a witch's curse 
             Fmaj7
Dorothy made me laugh 
                        B                       Em
I felt much better so I went back 2 the violent room 
Let me tell U what I did 

G                Am     Gmaj7
  I took another bubble bath 
G         Am    Gmaj7
  with my pants on 
G         Am       Gmaj7
  All the fighting stopped 
G                Am    Gmaj7  A Bm7/11
  Next time I'll do it sooner 
A         Bm  Am    Bm  B+
  This is the ballad of Dorothy Parker

|Am7	|Ab-5	|Em7	|F#m7	|
|Fmaj7	|B	|Em	|Em	| Repeat To Fade

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