i ain't playing pretty polly chords by
Dirk Powell

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Key: C major•

Verse 1

C

C

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F

F

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When I was a young boy,

C

C

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my papaw played me songs

F

F

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He’d sing that Pretty Polly,

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C

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Dm

Dm

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and I’d listen all night long

C

C

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F

F

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Those sounds went straight into my soul,

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C

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Dm

Dm

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sitting on his cabin floor

C

C

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But I ain’t playing Pretty

F

F

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C

C

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Polly anymore

Verse 2

F

F

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When Granny was a young girl,

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C

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she had to hold her own

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F

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She told my little sister,

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G

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Dm

Dm

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don’t get with a man alone

C

C

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F

F

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Down in the Willow Garden,

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C

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Dm

Dm

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wasn’t some old metaphor

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C

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F

F

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C

C

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So I ain’t playing Willow Garden anymore

F

F

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I ain’t playing

Verse 3

Pretty

G

G

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C

C

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F

F

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Polly or Rosalie McFall

C

C

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G

G

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I ain’t playing Knoxville Girl,

C

C

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F

F

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no, none of them at all

Em

Em

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G

G

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No more tales of women killed by

C

C

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F

F

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drunken violent men

C

C

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G

G

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They don’t deserve their stories told,

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C

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I won’t raise my voice again

F

F

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C

C

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F

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I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore

C

C

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Verse 4

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F

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Cause I know some stories,

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C

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men like my Uncle Clyde

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F

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He spent seven decades at my

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G

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C

C

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Dm

Dm

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Aunt Myrtle’s side

C

C

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F

F

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Kentucky teens who fell in love

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C

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Dm

Dm

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C

C

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in 1934

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F

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They had to leave the mountains

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C

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to find work in Baltimore

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Dm

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C

C

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F

F

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She tended their young family

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C

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Dm

Dm

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while he fought for them in the war

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C

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F

F

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And she still holds his picture

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C

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Dm

Dm

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and looks for him at the door

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C

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F

F

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Though she just turned 100 and

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C

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Dm

Dm

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he passed 12 years before

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C

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F

F

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C

C

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So I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore

F

F

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I ain’t playing

Verse 5

Pretty

G

G

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C

C

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F

F

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Polly or Rosalie McFall

Em

Em

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G

G

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I ain’t playing Knoxville Girl,

Am

Am

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C

C

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F

F

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no, none of them at all

G

G

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No more tales of women killed by

C

C

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F

F

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drunken violent men

G

G

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They don’t deserve their stories told,

C

C

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F

F

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I won’t raise my voice again

C

C

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F

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C

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And I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore

Verse 6

C

C

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C

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I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore

F

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C

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I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore

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Tuning:Standard Open Tuner

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E ₂

A ₂

D ₃

G ₃

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E ₄

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B ₁

E ₂

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G ₃

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Chords

C
F
Dm
G
Em
Am

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The original key of i ain't playing pretty polly by Dirk Powell is C major.

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