Pretty Polly Chords by Ralph Stanley

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Oh Polly, pretty Polly, would you take me on your time?
[Am] Oh pretty [C] Polly, would you take me on your time?
Me to set you sight, you to pleasure my mind.
From the mine is to marry and never depart.
From the mine is to marry and never depart.
First time I saw you, it wounded my heart. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh Polly, pretty Polly, come and go along with me.
_ Oh pretty Polly, come and go along with me.
Before we get to some pleasure in the trees.
Well, you let her over mountains and valleys so deep.
_ Mountains and valleys so deep.
Polly, Miss Gossett, you've been beginning to tease.
_ Saying, well, little Willie, I'm afraid of the waves.
Well, I'm afraid of your waves.
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_ _ Well, Polly, pretty Polly, your guess is about right.
Polly, pretty Polly, your guess is about right.
A dove goes to graze in a big barn of white gold.
Then you let her little father in, what did you find?
Little father, what did you find?
You dug a grave for the dead long gone. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Then she knelt down before him pleading for her life.
She knelt before him pleading for her life.
Let me be a single girl, but can't you?
_ Now, Polly, pretty Polly, that never can be.
_ Polly, pretty Polly, that never can be.
Your past reputation's in trouble to me. _ _ _
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_ _ _ Then he opened up a buzz on the slightest snow.
_ The upper bosom is white as snow.
He stabbed it through the heart and the blood did overflow.
_ _ Then he went down to the jailhouse and what did he say?
He went to the jailhouse and what did he say?
I feel pretty Polly and trying to get away. _ _ _ _
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