From the album Jesus of Cool Tuning: EADGBE Crazy lyric. Great pop song. G C D Marie Provost did not look her best G C D The day the cops bust into her loneli-ness G Em In the cheap hotel up on Hollywood West C D July Twenty Nine G C D She'd been lying there for two or three weeks G C D The neighbours said they never heard a squeak G Em While hungry eyes that could not speak C D Said even little doggies have got to eat G D/F# C /B Am She was a winner that became a doggie's dinner G She never meant that much to me C D G C G D Who oh oh oh oh poor Ma-rie G C D Marie Provost was a movie queen G C D Mysterious angel of the silent screen G Em And run like the wind the nation's young men steamed C D When Marie crossed the silent screen G C D Woah she came out west from New York G C D But when the talkies came Mar-ie just couldn't cope G /F# Em The public said Mar-ie take a walk C D All the way back to New York G D/F# C /B Am She was a winner that became a doggie's dinner G She never meant that much to me C D G C G D But now I see poor Mar-ie Instrumental: E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| G -4--4--2--0-2-0-|-5--5--4--2-4-2-|-7--7--5--4-5-4-|-9--9--7--5-7-5-| D ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| G Em C D G Em C D G C D Those quaalude bombs didn't help her sleep G C D As her nights grew long and her days grew bleak G /F# Em It's all downhill once you've passed your peak C D Marie got ready for that last big sleep G C D The cops came in and they looked a-round G C D Throwing up everywhere over what they’d found G /F# Em The handiwork of Marie's little dachs-hund C D That hungry little dachshund! G D/F# C /B Am She was a winner that became a doggie's dinner G She never meant that much to me C D G C G D Who oh oh oh oh poor Ma-rie G C G D Poor Ma-rie G C G D Poor Ma-rie G C G D Poor poor Ma-rie G C G D Poor Ma-rie G C G D Poor Ma-rie ----------------------------------------- I hope I've done it justice! Kevin O'Brien Watford England June 2010 watfordkev@gmail.com
