Tom: G album version - LITTLE E|-----------------------------| B|-----------------------------| [CHORDS] G G9 Am C D Gsus4 Em E|--------0----0---2----------0-| B|--------1----1---3----------0-| G|-4--2---2----0---2----5-----0-| D|-5--5---2----2---0----5-----2-| A|-5--5---0----3--------5-----2-| E|-3--------------------3-----0-| E|----------------------------------| [VERSE 1] G G9 G It was a modern love affair Am C Completely cool and casual G G9 G They hardly knew each other was there Am C I mean both of them had their own getting off to do Am G And they had to dream about their own self Am C When they were through [VERSE 2] C D But the modern girl was elated G C D With what the revolution gave her G C D G And since she was liberated she could have C D Everything that striked her fancy [VERSE 3] G G9 G And she fancied quite a bit Am C I mean if it felt good she did it G G9 G And she did it every chance she could get Am C With her main modern man and otherwise Am C And her taste wasn't limited to just modern guys [VERSE 4] C D Since another modern girl showed her G C D That modern girls know how to hold her G C D And after she had her eyes opened G C D All her old close friends started getting closer Am C D G Gsus4 G And new friends weren't that far far away [VERSE 5] G D But the modern man he just wasn't so lucky Em D Am D He being shook from his usual role as a heartbreaker G D He was completely battered and bewildered Em D Am D When he actually started in feeling something for her Em C And he then, he discovered a new emotion G D When they stopped ending up together as frequently Em C And when he finally confronted her with the question G D Em Had she been bedding down with others in the periphery without him? C And she replied, Hell yes ain't it funny? [VERSE 6] G G9 G Am C So view the modern man looking, looking, looking, like a soft, soft Picasso G G9 G He's there with his head in his hand Am C Repeating to himself an epigram Am C G9 Live by the scam, die by the scam