Tone: [D]
Verse 1:
[D]Loretta broke my heart in a letter
[A]she told me she was leaving and her life would be better.
[A]Joan broke it off over the phone
[D]after the tone, she left me alone.
[D]Jen said she'd never ever see me again,
[A]when I saw her again she said it again.
[A]Jan met another man,
[D]Liza got amnesia just forgot who I am.
[D]Felicity said there was no electricity,
[A]Emily, no chemistry.
[A]Fran ran, Bruce turned out to be a man.
[D]Flo had to go I couldn't go with the flow.
Chorus:
[Gbm]Carol Brown just took a [Bm]bus out of town,
but I'm hoping that you'll stick around.
Interlude:
[D] [D]
Bridge:
[Em]He doesn't cook or clean, he's not [D]good boyfriend mat[A]material
-Ooh, we can eat cereal-
[Em]You'll lose interest fast, his rel[D]relationships never las[A]last
-Shut up girlfriends from
the past-
[Em]He says he'll do one thing and then he [D]goes and does an[A]another thing
[Em]Oh, who organized all of
my ex-girlfriends into a c[D]choir, and got them to s[A]sing?
[Em]Ah ah ah[D]ah ah, ah ah[A]ah ah
-Who, who,... Mm, shut up-
[Em]Ah ah ah a[D]h, ah ah a[A]h, ah ah ah[D].
-Shut up girlfriends from the past-
Interlude:
[D] [D]
Verse 2:
[D]Mimi will no longer see me.
[A]Britney, Britney hit me.
[A]Paula, Persephone, Stella, and Stephanie,
[D]there must fifty ways that lovers have left me.
Chorus:
[Gbm]Carol Brown just took a [Bm]bus out of town...
Bridge:
[Em]Love is a delicate thing, it could just [D]float away on the [A]breeze
-He said the same thing to me-
[Em]How can we ever know we've found the [D]right person in this [A]world?
-He means he looks at other girls-
[Em]Love is a mystery that [D]does not follow a [A]rule
-This guy is a fool-
[Em]He'll always be a boy, he's a [D]man who never grew [A]up
-I thought I told you to shut up-
[Em]Ah ah ah[D]ah ah, ah ah [A]ah
-Mona, you told me you were in a coma-
[Em]Ah ah ah a[D]ah, ah ah ah[A]ah
-Tiffany you said that you had an epiphany-
[Em]Ah ah ah a[D]ah, ah ah ah[A]ah
-Mm, would you like a little cereal?-
[Em]Ah ah ah
[D]ah, [A]ah
ah ah
-Who organized this choir of ex-girlfriends,
was it you Carol Brown, was it you Carol Brown?-
Chorus:
[Gbm]Carol Brown just took a [Bm]bus out of town...
but I'm hoping that you'll [D]
[D]stick around
[D]Do do, do do do do do stick around
[D]Do do, do do do do do
[D]Do do, do do do do do stick around
[D]Do do, do do do do do do
Stick a[D]around