Put You in a Song Lyrics

Key of D (Capo 2)
INTRO - This song starts out with the cowbell ticking away, so we start by ping the body of the guitar on the pickguard to
get a similar sound (TAP). If you hold the pick between thumb and index finger and leave the other three sticking out, you
may be able to continue the cowbell effect as you pick/strum the intro part. I have written in the chord fingering to hold
onto while emphasizing the melodic INTRO MOTIF with the pick on the up and down strokes as needed.
VERSES - In the verses, it's primarily bass and drums, so we emphasize the bass strings, using the same strumming pattern
from the intro, and trying to maintain an Off-Beat string-muting tap.
CHORUS - The chorus is full-out chords. The very last chorus finishes with several of the Intro Motifs in a row until the
line that starts with A minor.
CHORDS (in order of appearance):
F: 133211
Em: 022000
Am: x02210
C/E: 032010
Dm: xx0231
G: 320003 or barred, 355433
C: x32010
Dm7: xx0211
G/B: x20003
INTRO MOTIF:
chord F C
strum v ^ v ^ v ^ ...
BASS RIFF:
chord (Am) F
strum ^ v ^ v ...
"Yeah a picture paints..."
FF TRANSITION:
chord F F G
strum v ^ v ^ v ^ ...
A - "And if I get it right..."
Tap: 1 2 3 4
Intro Motif: F C
Intro Motif: F C
hey-hey-eyyeah, nnh-OO-oo-OO-ouh- (ad lib)
Well here you come again and you're lookin' so fine;
You don't notice me but it's all right;
F Am (Bass Riff)
I'm just a guy who wishes that I could be your man someday. (oh oh)
Yeah a picture paints a thousand words, it's true,
But it's still not enough for how I feel about you.
I wanna put you in a melody, I gotta set you to a groove.
I wanna put you in my car and drive and turn you up loud,
Roll down all the windows and shout it out:
I love this girl! Oh
If I could press play, repeat, how happy I'd be:
Wherever I'd go I'd have you there with me.
You'd be right where you belong;
F (Intro Motif) C
I wanna put you in a so-ong..("ohs" mimic the Intro Motif)
Well I'd sing about your smile and your pretty blue eyes,
The way your hair shimmers in the sunlight.
It 'd be so easy: I'd just write it from my heart.
'Cause I gotta tell the world what you mean to me,
Wrap you up in a melody so you'll be Stuck in my head all day
'Cause you're already there anyway! Yes you are.
I wanna put you in my car and drive and turn you up loud,
Roll down all the windows and shout it out:
I love this girl! Yeah
If I could press play, repeat, how happy I'd be:
Wherever I'd go I'd have you there with me.
You'd be right where you belong;
F (Transition) F
I wanna put you in a song!
And if I get it right everybody'd be singing along. Oh yeah
And when they see you on the street they'll say, "Hey!
F (ring) Tap: 1 2 3 4 5 6 C/E (real quick)
Ain't you the girl in that song?"
INSTRUMENTAL
I wanna put you in my car and drive and turn you up loud,
Roll down all the windows and shout it out:
I'm in love with this girl! Yeah
(half time) Dm7
If I could press play, rewind a couple million times
Imagine for a moment that you're all mine
Every night I'd drive you home
(G) Tap: 1 2 3
If I could put you in a--
4 G G G G F (Intro Motif) C
Let me put - you - in - a song! eh eh yeh
Let me put you in a song
Oh a pretty little song about you ba-by
(Thanks to Ryan for tabs)