Key: A major
Verse 1
G
Gm
This is a place of dead roads,
E
A
F#
rod -riding yags and peat men and cat burglars,
G#
F#m
bindle -stiffs and hobo jungles.
Here is salt -chunk
Mary the
E
A
Fence in her red
Portobello,
Idaho.
D#m
B
Mary keeps an iron pot
A
E
F#
of pork and beans al ways on the fire.
A
F
You eat first and talk business later.
A
Gm
D
She names a price, she
Ebm
F#m
D
C
Bb
Mary could say no quicker than
A
E
any wo man I ever knew, and
none of her no's ever meant yes.
Cm
C
She kept the money in a cookie jar,
Gm
but nobody
thought about that.
Gm
F#
C
Her cold gray eyes would have seen the thought,
F#
and maybe
D
A
on the next sleigh.
F#
John
Cm
C
Cm
Law just happens by, or a citizen
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