i ain't playing pretty polly chords by Dirk Powell

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Verse 1
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When I was a young boy,
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my papaw played me songs
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He’d sing that Pretty Polly,
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and I’d listen all night long
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Those sounds went straight into my soul,
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sitting on his cabin floor
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But I ain’t playing Pretty
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Polly anymore

Verse 2
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When Granny was a young girl,
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she had to hold her own
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She told my little sister,
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don’t get with a man alone
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Down in the Willow Garden,
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wasn’t some old metaphor
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So I ain’t playing Willow Garden anymore
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I ain’t playing

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Verse 3
Pretty
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Polly or Rosalie McFall
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I ain’t playing Knoxville Girl,
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no, none of them at all
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No more tales of  women killed by
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drunken violent men
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They don’t deserve their stories told,
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I won’t raise my voice again
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I  ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
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Verse 4
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Cause I know some stories,
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men like my Uncle Clyde
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He spent seven decades at my
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Aunt Myrtle’s side
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Kentucky teens who fell in love
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in 1934
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They had to leave the mountains
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to find work in Baltimore
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She tended their young family
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while he fought for them in the war
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And she still holds his picture
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and looks for him at the door
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Though she just turned 100 and
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he passed 12 years before
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So I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
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I ain’t playing

Verse 5
Pretty
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Polly or Rosalie McFall
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I ain’t playing Knoxville Girl,
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no, none of them at all
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No more tales of women killed by
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drunken violent men
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They don’t deserve their stories told,
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I won’t raise my voice again
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And I  ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore