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by Pete Townshend



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SLIT SKIRTS
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VERSE I:
I was just thirty-four years old and I was still

Wandering in a haze
                 
I was wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were
                             
Lost in a maze
          
I don't know why I thought I should have some kind of

Divine right to the blues
                    
It's sympathy not tears people need when they're the
                             
Front Page sad news.
         
The incense burned away and the
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Stench began to rise

And lovers now estranged avoided
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Catching each others' eyes

PRE-CHORUS I:
And girls who lost their children cursed the
                    
Men who fit the coil
           
And men not fit for marriage took their
               
Refuge in the oil
         
No-one respects the flame quite like the
               
Fool who's badly burned
            
>From all this you'd imagine that there
                
Must be something learned . . .

CHORUS I
Slit skirts, Jeanie isn't wearing those

Slit skirts, and I don't ever wear no
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Ripped shirts, can't pretend that growing older

Never hurts.
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Knee-pants, Jeanie never wears those

Knee-pants, have to be so drunk to try a
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New dance, so afraid of every little

Romance . . .
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Slit skirts, slit skirts, Jeanie isn't wearing those

Slit skirts, slit skirts, she wouldn't dare in those

Slit skirts, slit skirts, wouldn't be seen dead in those

Slit skirts

Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up

Romance?  Why can't we drink it up

True-heart romance, just need a brief new little

Romance . . .


VERSE II

Let me tell you some more about myself, you know I'm sitting at home
just now.
The big events of the day have passed and the late TV shows have come
on.
I'm number one on the home team, but I still feel unfulfilled. A
silent voice
in a broken heart complains that I'm unskilled. And I know that when
she
thinks of me, she thinks of me as him, but unlike me she don't workout
her
frustrations in the gym.

Recriminations fester and the past can never change, a woman's
expectations
run from both ends of the range.

Once she walked with untamed lovers face between her legs,
Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg...


[Repeat VERSE I, PRE-CHORUS I & CHORUS I]


FADE
[Repeat last four lines of CHORUS I]

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