Key: A
Introduction: A G D/F# G D G A
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I was working part time in a five-and-dime,
G D G A
My boss was Mr. McGee.
G D/F#
He told me several times that he didn' t like my kind,
G D G A
' Cause I was a bit 2 leisurely.
G D/F#
Seems that I was busy doing something close 2 nothing,
G D G A
But different than the day before.
G D/F#
That' s when I saw her, ooh, I saw her
G
She walked in through the out door (out door).
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She wore a Raspberry beret
G D G A
The kind U find in a second hand store
G D/F#
Raspberry beret
G D A
And if it was warm she wouldn' t wear much more
G D/F#
Raspberry beret
E A
I think I love her
A G D/F#
Built like she was, uh, she had the nerve 2 ask me
G D G A
If I planned 2 do her any harm
G D/F#
So, look here, I put her on the back of my bike and-a we went riding
G D G A
Down by old man Johnson' s farm
G D/F#
I said now, overcast days never turned me on
G D G A
But something about the clouds and her mixed
G D/F#
She wasn' t 2 bright but I could tell
G
When she kissed me
She knew how 2 get her kicks
A G D/F#
She wore a Raspberry beret
G D G A
The kind U find in a second hand store
G D/F#
Raspberry beret
G D A
And if it was warm she wouldn' t wear much more
G D/F#
Raspberry beret
E A
I think I love her
D A/C# D A/C#
The rain sounds so cool when it hits the barn roof,
NC
D A/C# D A/C#
Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees
NC
G F#m E
Listen, they say the first time ain' t the greatest
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G F#m
I wouldn' t change a stroke ' cause baby I' m the most,
E
With a girl as fine as she was then.
(chorus repeated to fade)