Treat Me Like Dirt

Treat me like dirt - Patti Rothberg

>From the album `between the 1 and the 9'

Transcribed by Visscher@alg.frg.eur.nl

Comments, suggestions, additions etcetera, everything is welcome!

I think Patti plays a 12 string acouistic guitar in this song, but I'm not

sure. The tab is for a regular six-string, though.

First I describe the 3 pieces which you play during the song. With Fig 1, I

describe the way I think it is played in the intro. The bend is just about 1/4

note up. During the verses, make some variations on this figure. Fig 2 speaks

for itself. In Fig 3, replace the A-chord sometimes by an Asus4 (x02230)

Here are the figures:

Fig 1.

+ . + . + . + . |

|---------------------------------|

|-----------------------2---2-----|

|-----1-----1-----------2---2-----|

|-----2-----2---------------------|

|---------------------------------|

|-0-----------0h2/3b----------3---|

|

(bend 1/4)

Fig 2

+ . + . + . + . |

|-----0-----0-0---3---3-2---2-----|

|-----2-----2-2---3---3-3---3-----|

|-----2-----2-2---2---2-2---2-----|

|---------------------------------|

|-0-------------------------------|

|---------------------------------|

Fig. 3

+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |

|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

|-----4-----4-4-4-4---4-4---4-4---|-----2-----2-2-2-2---2-2---2-2---|

|-----4-----4-4-4-4---4-4---4-4---|-----2-----2-2-2-2---2-2---2-2---|

|-----4-----4-4-4-4---4-4---4-4---|-----2-----2-2-2-2---2-2---2-2---|

|-2-------------------------------|-0-------------------------------|

|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

play Fig 1 8 times (drums come in the 5th time around)

VERSE 1

(w/Fig 1) You stay away from me, because you

know I'm good for you and you are

masochistic too. The reason

I want you so much is cuz I

(w/Fig 2) know you're no good for me so to-

gether we are perfect dontcha

(w/Fig 1) see?

VERSE 2

(w/Fig 1) I'm the one you want. When you're so

close I try to flaunt it, but you

pretend not to notice. Yet I

know you're being bogus. When you

(w/Fig 2) flirt with other women and I

know I could be swimming in your

(w/Fig 1) sea.

(w/Fig 3) I could be so jealous of someone like me

someone's got it all yet they just don't see

I shut out acceptance so I won't get hurt

and move one to the next one who will

(w/Fig 1) Treat me like dirt

Treat me like dirt

Treat me like dirt

VERSE 3

(w/Fig1) Standing at the threshold of an-

other bad obsession, yeah too

bad it's with a person who could

never treat me worse then how the

(w/Fig 2) way you treated me when I was

staring at the backside of your

(w/Fig 1) neck.

VERSE 4

(w/Fig1) I was hoping soon you'd turn a-

round and look me over, up and

down my heart was racing, cuz I

know I couldn't face you after

(w/Fig 2) giving you my heart and soul and

giving you the body of my

(w/Fig 1) mind.

VERSE 5

(w/Fig1) If I had a dollar every

minute every hour that I

spent obsessing madly how you

treated me so badly and how

(w/Fig 2) badly that I wanted you the

night you left me outside in the

(w/Fig 1) cold.

VERSE 6

(w/Fig1) But the thing that really gets me is the

way you walk right past me. Yes you're

talking to some other and pre-

tending she's your lover just to

(w/Fig 2) get me turning green inside like

being seen with me would be a

(w/Fig 1) crime

VERSE 7

(w/Fig1) 4:30 in the morning, picking

up the phone I'm yournin just a-

wakened at that minute from a

dream that had U in it. I can

(w/Fig 2) still hear you're sweet talking but the

next day U'd be walking out on

(w/Fig 1) me.

VERSE 8

(w/Fig1) Some day soon I know it, maybe

in december snow, I'm gonna

get you all alone and take you

to a place I've shown to no one

(w/Fig 2) else in this great world - yes the

place where you will see me as your

(w/Fig 1) girl.

(not transcribed yet)

^Z