JESSIE'S GIRL

by Rick Springfield
Album: "Working Class Dog"
(c) 1981



For the pre-chorus, play a D chord against the notated chords if you have a second guitar.

For the chorus, use the following chord shapes:

    A  D                 A   Bm    Asus4 Bm    Asus4
   |1  &  2  &  3  &  4  &  |1  &  2  &  3  &  4  &  |
  e|------------------------|------------------------|
  B|---7-----7-----7--------|------------------------|
  G|---7-----7-----7--------|7-----7-----7-----7-----|
  D|7--7-----7-----7-----7--|9-----7-----9-----7-----|
  A|7--5-----5-----5-----7--|9-----7-----9-----7-----|
  E|5--------------------5--|7-----------------------|

For the first twelve bars of the bridge, one guitar plays the chords indicated while everybody else stays at G.  For these twelve bars, you might use the following chord shapes:

    G           D        A
   |1  &  2  &  3  &  4  &  |1  &  2  &  3  &  4  &  |
  e|7-----------10-------9--|------------------------|
  B|8-----------10-------10-|------------------------|
  G|7-----------11-------9--|------------------------|
  D|------------------------|------------------------|
  A|------------------------|------------------------|
  E|------------------------|------------------------|


Jessie's Girl
by Rick Springfield

Intro

|D A Bm  |G A D
|D A Bm  |G A D

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Verse 1
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|D      A    Bm     |G  A  D
 Jessie is a friend,
        |D        A      Bm   |G     A  D
Yeah I know, he's been a good friend of mine
    |D     A           Bm                |G      A D
But lately something's changed, it ain't hard to define
         |D      A      Bm         |G     A        D
Jessie's got himself a girl, and I wanna make her mine
Pre-Chorus
          |D            A         Bm     |G  A  D
And she's watching him with those eyes,
          |D           A        Bm     |G   A      D
And she's loving him with that body, I just know it,
         |D            A      Bm  |G    A      D
And he's holding her in his arms, late late at night

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Chorus
------
|A                           |A  D          A |Bm Asus4
  You know, I wish that I had Jessie's girl,
  Bm        Asus4|A  D          A |Bm Asus4 Bm Asus4
I wish that I had Jessie's girl,
|G      A     D          |Bm         A
  Where can I find her, a woman like that?
Verse 2
I play along with the charade,
There doesn't seem to be a reason to change,
You know I feel so dirty when they start talking cute,
I want to tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot.

Pre-chorus
Chorus
Chorus '
                             |A  D          A |Bm Asus4
  You know, I wish that I had Jessie's girl,
  Bm        Asus4|A  D          A |Bm Asus4 Bm Asus4
I wish that I had Jessie's girl,
|G      A     D          |G     A    D
  Where can I find her, a woman,
|G      A     D          |Bm         A
  Where can I find her, a woman like that?
Bridge
|G  D  |A
|G  D  |A

|G        D              |A
  And I'm looking in the mirror all the time,
|G          D              |A
  Wondering what she don't see in me
|G               D               |A
  Yeah I've been funny I've been cool with the lines
|G        D                 |A
Ain't that the way love's supposed to be?

|F# B  F#|G#m  F#sus4 G#m F#sus4
|F# B  F#|G#m  F#sus4 G#m F#sus4
|F# B  F#|G#m  F#sus4 G#m F#sus4
|F# B  F#|G#m  F#sus4 G#m F#sus4

       |G      A     D          |Bm        A
Tell me, where can I find her a woman like that?

|D A Bm  |G A D   (start Dmaj guitar solo)
|D A Bm  |G A D
|D A Bm  |G A D
|D A Bm  |G A D   (end guitar solo)

Outro

|A                           |A  D          A |Bm Asus4
  You know, I wish that I had Jessie's girl,
  Bm        Asus4|A  D          A |Bm Asus4 Bm Asus4 Bm
I wish that I had Jessie's girl,
  Asus4|A  D          A |Bm Asus4 Bm Asus4
I want  Jessie's girl,
|G      A     D          |Bm         A
  Where can I find her, a woman like that?

    |A  D          A |Bm Asus4
Like Jessie's girl,
  Bm        Asus4|A  D          A |Bm Asus4 Bm Asus4
I wish that I had Jessie's girl,
  Bm      Asus4|A  D          A |Bm Asus4 Bm Asus4
I want, I want  Jessie's girl,

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |
|A D   D   A D A |G       D       |



by Bob Brockman, (brockman@udayton.edu)