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) CHORUS: 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. CHORUS: 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. CHORUS: A sixties smash from Kraziekhat!
