Mary Jenkins chords by Don Williams, The Pozo-Seco Singers
Verse 1
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Mary Jenkins lived about
a half a mile from town
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Not too far, not too near, but in between
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She lived in a big white house
with flowers in the yard
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Ivy climbing up the window screen
One morning when the old gray rooster
crowed the coming dawn
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Mary Jenkins rose up from her bed
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She dressed in aid
and went outside
to do her daily chores
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To milk the cows and get the
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chickens fed
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She gathered eggs, slopped the hogs,
went out to the barn
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Pitched up the sorrel and the roam
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Then she climbed into her buggy
and gave the reins a flick
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Rode toward the depot all alone
She waited for an hour
and the train came a -rollin' in
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She backed the team into the station yard
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And a coffin wasn't loaded
in place to board her rig
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She rode back to her farm without
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a word
She hired some boys to dig the grave
and help her with the box
While the heat of the noonday
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danced around
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She took off the flag
and metal that fastened to the lid
Filled the hole and stuck
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the cross into the ground
Then she sat down in her rocking chair
to rest a little while
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And once again by candlelight she read
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That let ter with the solemn words
and fancy foreign names
Then she rocked a while,
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prayed, put out the light,
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and went to bed
Mary Jenkins
Don Williams, The Pozo-Seco Singers
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