Whatshername

Words & Music:

Noel Paul Stookey, Dave Dixon & Richard Kniss

 

I had forgotten all about this wonderful PPM classic until I heard a friend performing it.  You'll find it on the classic Album 1700 and it is worth learning the "hard chords" to play it - it will teach you substitution chords and will improve your ear and technique.  Play these as barre chords.  You can find a terrific rendition of this - complete with chord charts - at www.peterpaulandmary.com.  Then, click on "The Music".

 

[freely]

EbM7     Ab7         DbM7        Dbm7   Ebm7      Ab7      DbM7

Jimmy McGregor, hey, Jimmy, come here!  Jimmy you son of a gun!

Am7            D7          Bm7         Em7          Am7         D7           Dm7  G7

What 'cha been doin'?  How long has it been?  Hell, seven years if it's been one.

 

 

How's the preacher?  How's Don, did he go back to school?

No kidding, I thought he was gay!

Who me?  Oh, I'm great!  I'm a father you know.

Yeah, two of 'em and one on the way.

 

Oh, well, she couldn't make it, she gets pretty tired,

She started her last month today.

I only came up for a couple of minutes,

Believe me, I wish I could stay.

 

Oh, and yeah while I think of it, do you remember, not for myself, for a friend.

A girl that I brought here, before I got married a couple of times at the end.

 

[a tempo]

AM7      Am7             D7b5     GM7       Gm7

Whatshername? She hardly knew me--; now her name means something to me.

FM7         Db7      Gm7      C+/F#

I wonder if she ever got over me?

AM7      Am7        D7b5         GM7                  Gm7

Anyway I should be flattered for yesterday at least I mattered.

FM7          Db7

Where did it go?

 

INSTRUMENTAL OVER:  AM7  Am7  D7b5  GM7  Gm7  FM7  Db7

 

Gm7     C7             FM7       Dm7(add2)/F    Fm7      Ddim(add2)/F      EbM7

Jimmy I tell you we're two lucky guys.   You've got everything that you've planned.

    Ebm7           Ab7         DbM7

And all things considered I've done fairly well.

       Em    A7     Cm7         F7  Bm7  E7             AM7

I mean God's honest truth, man, I-- love Ruth and Whatshername?

  Am7       D7b5      GM7            Am7

I thought I knew her, Whatshername?  What happened to her,

FM7    Dm7(add2)/F  Db7      Gm7      C+/F#    FM7

I don't know------- why I'll never forget--- Whatshername?

 




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