Mary The Submissing Years chords by Elizabeth Cook

• Capo on 2nd

Key: A

Intro:

G

Verse:
G
It was hot, 100 in the shade
C
When Mary got a note from this guy named Gabe
D
She don’t remember getting pregnant but, she did
D                                               G
And by all accounts she churned out one heckuva kid

G
But walking home from church one day, he just up and disappeared
C
Maybe he went to find Santa or maybe he went to get beer
D
He was just twelve years old, this miracle she carried
D                                        G
It was all so confusing, she wasn’t even married

G
So she fled south to Elizabeth, her eldest cousin
C
Who despite her old age, also had one in the oven
D
And in a duplex with a busted cement gnome
D                          G               C
Chattanooga was as good as home, That’s in Tennessee
D
There’s Barbie lovers and firecrackers, train tracker’s
D                                                   G
Coca Cola makers, insurance takers, And a lotta hot preachers

Chorus:
G
Sarah bought some brownies
C
Shawna bought Rose’
D
They almost booked a beach trip
D                      G
But they didn’t have a way

G
They baked biscuits at daylight
       C
For whoever might stop by
         D
But they didn’t get a lotta callers at
    D               G
The corner of Do or Die

Verse:
G
Sweet tea was flowin’ and so were the tears
C
As Mary lived out her submissing years
D
Not really free and sure not a boss
D                             G
Just mostly lonely and mostly lost

G
Wherever Jesus was and whatever God had in mind
C
She hoped her boy was out there somewhere having a good time
D
Cause chance just seems to fall out of sky
D                                              G
And that’s if you’re lucky and the weather was dry

G
Lots of letters from Mama came, full of worry and I told ya’s
C
So she curled up on the couch and watched Steel Magnolias
D
She baked a cake and baked a ham
D                         G
She opened an account on Instagram

G
Cause that’s what ya did back then
C
Mary was a good ol gal, She didn’t deserve this shit
D
She wrote her lines out one at a time
D                           G
And she didn’t complain one bit

G
She saw Sinead cover Loretta on Saturday Night Live
C
Like every good virgin does
D
But she spent most her time just sittin’ round wondering
D                       G
Where in the hell Jesus was


Chorus:
G
Sarah bought some brownies
C
Shawna bought Rose’
D
They almost booked a beach trip
D                      G
But they didn’t have a way

G
They baked biscuits at daylight
       C
For whoever might stop by
         D
But they didn’t get a lotta callers at
    D               G
The corner of Do or Die

Verse:
G
Time went by like molasses
C
So she signed up for some classes
D
But it seemed there were no real answers
D                                  G
Just a lotta fast food and raunchy dancers

G
And things everywhere were the worst kind of wild
C
She knew in her gut they were coming for her child
D
With bumpers and thumpers and guns a‘blazing
D                               G
Ol Jesus was in for some gnarly hazing

G
Frat boy hazing that is, the worst kind
G
She thought oh my God, what have I done
C
He’s a bottle of milk and all the love inside him is mine
D                                               G
They’re gonna kill my baby, they don’t like him none

G
So she cut off all her hair, she thought she might could get there
               C
If they would just mistake her for a man
D
It looked kinda mod, it probably wouldn’t please God
D                                G
But she had to have some kind of plan

G
Turns out there are no fish at the end of a lightning rod
C
And the worst thing you can grow up to be is the son of God
D
I’m not sure there’s anything anybody can do
D                                                 G
When people will kill ya even when there’s nothing wrong with you

G
So come gather round me friends,
C
All my contemporary peers
D
And I tell you all the story of Mary
D                   G
The submissing years