Key: C major
Verse 1
C
F
When I was a young boy,
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Dm
and I’d listen all night long
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F
Those sounds went straight into my soul,
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Dm
sitting on his cabin floor
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C
Polly anymore
Verse 2
G
Dm
don’t get with a man alone
C
F
Down in the Willow Garden,
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Dm
wasn’t some old metaphor
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F
C
So I ain’t playing Willow Garden anymore
Verse 3
Pretty
G
C
F
Polly or Rosalie McFall
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G
I ain’t playing Knoxville Girl,
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F
no, none of them at all
Em
G
No more tales of women killed by
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F
drunken violent men
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G
They don’t deserve their stories told,
F
C
F
I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
C
Verse 4
G
C
Dm
Aunt Myrtle’s side
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F
Kentucky teens who fell in love
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Dm
C
in 1934
Dm
C
F
She tended their young family
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Dm
while he fought for them in the war
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F
And she still holds his picture
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Dm
and looks for him at the door
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F
Though she just turned 100 and
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Dm
he passed 12 years before
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F
C
So I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
Verse 5
Pretty
G
C
F
Polly or Rosalie McFall
Em
G
I ain’t playing Knoxville Girl,
Am
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F
no, none of them at all
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F
drunken violent men
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F
I won’t raise my voice again
C
F
C
And I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
Verse 6
C
F
C
I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
F
C
I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
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