Mary C Brown And The Hollywood Sign chords by Dory Previn

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: Bb

♫ Intro:

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♫ Verse 1:
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You know the Hollywood sign
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That stands in the Hollywood hills
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I don't think the christ of the andes
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Ever blessed so many ills
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The hollywood sign seems to smile
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Like it's constantly saying "cheese"
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I doubt if the statue of liberty
                     A7
Ever welcomed more refugees

♫ Verse 2:
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Give me your poor
     D7
Your tired your pimps
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You carhops your cowboys
     D7
Your midgets your chimps
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Give me your freaks
     D7
Your whores your harlots
     A7
Your flunkies your junkies
D7 N.C.
   Give me your starlets


♫ Bridge:
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Mary Cecilia Brown
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Rode to town on a Malibu bus
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She climbed to the top
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Of the Hollywood sign
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And with the smallest possible fuss
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She jumped off the letter "H"
           E7
'cause she did not become a star
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She died in less than a minute and a half
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She looked a bit like Hedy Lamarr
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Sometimes I have this dream
         E7
When the time comes for me to go
E7
I will climb that hill
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And I'll hang myself
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From the second or third letter "O"


♫ Verse 3:
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When Mary Cecilia jumped
    A7
She finally made the grade
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Her name was in the obituary column
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Of both the daily trades


♫ Verse 4:
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I hope the Hollywood sign
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Cries for the town it touches
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The lady of Lourdes in her grotto
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Saw fewer cripples and crutches


♫ Verse 5:
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Give me your poor
     D7
Your maladjusted
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Your sick and your beat
         D7
And your sad and your busted
A7
Give me your has-beens
D7
Give me your twisted
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Your loners your losers
N.C.
Give me your black-listed


♫ Interlude:
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♫ Verse 6:
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You know the Hollywood sign
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The witness to our confusion
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A symbol of dreams
             D7
Turns out to be
  N.C.
A sign of disillusion


♫ Outro:
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