Mary Lee chords by Tony Christie

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Verse 1
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I   got in town tonight,
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wasn't feeling right
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Stopped in a lonely bar for a drink or two
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The lights were turned down low,
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the whiskey started to flow
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Then I saw a girl lookin' lonely too
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She was a wild, barren wo man
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Looked just like a girl I used to know
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A girl I left in Tennessee
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with our daughter Mary Lee
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And on a night like this, I miss them so
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Well, I drank the whiskey down
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Had moved my mind around
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The jukebox played a song
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from way back home
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She came over from her stew
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Sat down next to this old fool
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She said, babe,
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there ain't no cause to drink alone
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She was a wild baroone woman
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Looked just like a girl I used to know
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A girl I left in Tennessee
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with our daughter Mary Lee
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And on a night like this I
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miss them so
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She put her hand on mine,
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Lord, it felt so fine
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I'd forgotten just how warm
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a hand could be
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God   knows I needed more,
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but I'd felt that hand before
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Somehow it all began to seem unreal
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As she sat there by my side,
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the man inside me cried
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Through my tears, I saw her memory
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And when she said her name
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I hung my head in shame
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She said, everybody calls me Mary Lee
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She was a wild, barren woman
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Looked just like a girl I used to know
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A girl that lived in Tennessee
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with her daughter Mary Lee
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Not a night like this I miss them so
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She was a wild barroom woman
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Looked just like a girl I used to know
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A girl I left in Tennessee
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with her daughter Mary Lee
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And on a night like this, I miss them so