Mary-Ann Regrets:Burl Ives:
A chart topper in '62.

   C (x32010@1)                                           G71. (320001@1)I saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some flowers,

G7 (320001@1)                                             CFor (x32010@1)Saturday's date and I restlessly counted the hours.

C (x32010@1)                                                 FThen (133211@1)today in the mail I received this short little note,

F (133211@1)   G7And (320001@1)I broke down inside at the message that her mother
Cwrote. (x32010@1)

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 C (x32010@1)                                      F'Mary-Ann (133211@1)regrets she's unable to see you again,

F (133211@1)   G7We're (320001@1)leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy 'till
Cthen.' (x32010@1)
CThey (x32010@1)know that she loves me, but poor boys don't fit in 
      Ftheir (133211@1)plan.

F (133211@1)  G7 (320001@1)            G (320003@1)         G7 (320001@1)  CGood-bye, (x32010@1)good luck, good-bye my sweet Mary-Ann.

  C2.The (x32010@1)weeks have gone by - not a word have I heard
      G7since (320001@1)then.

G7 (320001@1)                                              CIn (x32010@1)the papers I read of the far away places she's been.

C (x32010@1)                                           FI (133211@1)can't eat, I can't sleep, for over and over again,

F (133211@1)G7 (320001@1)            G (320003@1)          G7 (320001@1)        CMy (x32010@1)mind reads that letter and I cry for my Mary-Ann.


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  C (x32010@1)                                         G73.My (320001@1)Mary-Ann died - they say she just wasted away.

G7 (320001@1)                                     G (320003@1)    CIf (x32010@1)I could have seen her I know she'd be living today.

C (x32010@1)                                       C7 (x32310@1)    FFor (133211@1)we loved each other and if they  had  left us alone,

G7 (320001@1)                      G (320003@1)                   C (x32010@1)         
Today she'd be wearing my ring, not a blanket of stone.


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