Marie Provost chords by Nick Lowe
Verse 1
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Mary Provost did not look her best
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The day the cops bust into her lonely nest
In the cheap hotel up
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on Hollywood West July 29
She'd been lyin' there
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for two or three weeks
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The neighbors said
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they never heard a squeak
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For hungry eyes that could not speak
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Said even little doggie's have got to eat
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She was winner
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The became the doggie's dinner
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She never meant that much
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to me
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(But now I see) Oh
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poor Mary
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Mary Provost was a movie queen
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Mysterious angel of the silent screen
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And run like the wind
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the nation's young men steam
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When Mary crossed the si lent screen
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Oh she came out west from New York
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But when the talkies came
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Mary just couldn't cope
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Her public said Mary take a walk
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All the way back to New York
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Those twin balms didn't help her sleep
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As her nights grew long
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and her days grew bleak
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It's all downhill
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once you've passed your peak
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Mary got ready for that last big sleep
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The cops came in
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and they looked around
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Throwing up everywhere over
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what they found
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The handy work of Mary's
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little dachshund
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That hungry little
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dachshund
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Poor Mary, poor Mary,
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poor poor Mary
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Poor Mary
Outro 1
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Marie Provost
Nick Lowe
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