Sweet Mary Chords by Angry Johnny And The Killbillies

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_ _ _ _ _ _ For the love of sweet Mary I wished, but her heart chose [C] another man.
[D] Now the two lie together, just food for the [C] fish in the shadow of the [B] Ninah Tuck Dam.
[Em] I wanted her all for my own, _ but fate had made [C] other _ plans.
[D] Now she's waited with stone, and I'm all alone.
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I'll never [Em] see sweet [B] _ Mary [Em] _
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_ _ _ Sweet Mary I knew since we were just ten.
I loved her [C] from the very first day.
[D] We were never apart, that girl owned my [C] heart.
I remember how we [B] used to play.
[Em] When we were nineteen, my whole world came crashing.
Sweet Mary, she told [C] me goodbye.
_ [D] Her heart now belonged to a man much more [C] dashing, more handsome, [B] and richer _ [Em]
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Sweet Mary was happy as I'd ever seen her.
She glowed when she walked [C] down the avenue.
[D] As for me, I had never felt darker or [C] meaner.
I drank every [B] night with the tavern crew.
They [Em] were the talk of the town, she was the belle of the ball.
They made nightmares of all [C] of my dreams.
[D] Then I saw them one night down at Indian Falls [C] in the rapids.
[B] Drown out _ [Em]
Mary's screams.
_ _ _ With the rope I did bind them and weighed them with stone.
I sank them beneath [C] the old dam.
[D] I had wanted sweet Mary all for my own, [C] but fate had made [Em] other [B] plans.
_ [Em] Then people did wonder what happened to them.
Perhaps they ran off [C] and were wed.
[D] Sometimes I'd buy me a bottle, sit [G] on the dam, [C] and drink to my [B] sweet dead dear, [Em] dear Mary.
_ _ _ _ For the love of sweet Mary I wished, but her heart chose [C] another _ man.
[D] Now the two lie together, just food for the fish [C] in the shadow of the [B] Nantuck Dam.
[Em] For the love of sweet Mary I wished, _ but her heart chose another [C] _ _ man.
[D] Now the two lie together, just food for the fish [C] in the shadow [B] of the _ _ [Em] Nantuck Dam.
_ _ _ _ [C] In the shadow [B] of the _ _ [Em] Nantuck _ Dam.
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_ _ [B] In the shadow of the Nantuck Dam.
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