Pearly Little Red chords by Gordon Bok

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G+G  C majorC G+G  D MajorD
D    G+G
C majorC    G+G
G MajorG  D MajorD  G+G

Verse:
      C majorC      G+G      C majorC
Down in the dark and the doom of the city
     G+G            D MajorD
There's a monstrous old gathering hall
   C majorC         G+G     E minorEm
And a man there making a windy long speech
    C majorC        D MajorD
To the lords and ladies all

Verse:
G+G         C majorC        G+G
Fifteen thousand, twenty thousand people
C majorC           D MajorD
Milling and murmuring there
   E minorEm       D MajorD      C majorC   G+G
"And this ain't the place," says I to myself
    C majorC      D MajorD        G+G   D MajorD
"For a fellow that needs the fresh air"

Verse:
   G+G            E minorEm    G+G
So I asked for directions to get me outside
   C majorC           D MajorD
And I followed them all for sure
   E minorEm    D MajorD     C majorC      G+G
And I ended up down, ten floors underground
   C majorC      D MajorD   G+G  D MajorD
And I never saw an exit door

Verse:
  G+G         E minorEm     G+G
The first live soul I saw was a policeman
    C majorC             D MajorD
He was long, he was leaning on a rail
    E minorEm     D MajorD   C majorC      G+G
I says "I'll get to him before he sees me
  C majorC           D MajorD
And ferries me off to the jail"

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   G+G           E minorEm    G+G
So I ease myself up on his starboard quarter
     C majorC             D MajorD
I says "Excuse me, your honour, for sure
    E minorEm      D MajorD     C majorC     G+G
But if you've got a minute and nothing to do
     C majorC    D MajorD       G+G   D MajorD
Could you head me out toward the air?"

Verse:
     G+G            E minorEm   G+G
Well, he pointed his finger back over me shoulder
  C majorC             D MajorD
And I peered away through the gloom
  E minorEm      D MajorD       C majorC  G+G
And there, sure enough, was an exit sign
C majorC           D MajorD   D7D7
Bright as the crack of doom

Verse:
    G+G            C majorC   G+G
Well, I thanked him as nicely as ever I knew
   E minorEm           D MajorD
And I eased my way toward the door
    E minorEm    D MajorD       C majorC     G+G
But he fell into step with me, right alongside
    C majorC    D MajorD      G+G   D MajorD
I could hear his heels on the floor

Verse:
     G+G               E minorEm      G+G
Well, he smiled like the sharks out off Little Green Island
    C majorC         D MajorD
He had teeth all over his face
       E minorEm      D MajorD        C majorC     G+G
He says, "You know there's folks'd give an arm and a leg
C majorC            D MajorD
Just to get inside this place"

Verse:
  G+G              C majorC     G+G
"Oh boy!" thinks I, "I've got my foot in it now
 C majorC               D MajorD
I never should have come to this town"
  E minorEm   D MajorD       C majorC     G+G
And I don't know what I'm doin' here now
    C majorC    D MajorD    G+G    D MajorD
But I'm sure I'm doin' it wrong

Verse:
         G+G         E minorEm    G+G
He says, "There's people travel all over the country
C majorC             D MajorD
Just to come and see this thing
    E minorEm     D MajorD         C majorC     G+G
But if I know your type, you'd rather sit around home
  C majorC     D MajorD     G+G
And listen to Little Red sing"

Verse:
                C majorC     G+G
"Little Red," I said, "I'll be damned," I said
     C majorC            D MajorD
"I got a friend by that name back home"
    E minorEm        D MajorD    C majorC     G+G
And he smiles and says, "Look, in this crazy world
      C majorC          D MajorD
You got to call them like they come"

Verse:
   G+G           E minorEm    G+G
"And I can tell a Maine man any-damn-where
   C majorC        D MajorD
I can tell him by his tongue
  E minorEm       D MajorD      C majorC   G+G
And you ain't that far from the exit door
       C majorC     D MajorD    G+G    D MajorD  G+G
But you're a damn long way from home"

Verse:
                E minorEm   G+G
Well, he laughs till the echoes laugh again
     C majorC         D MajorD
He says "Okay, hold out your paws"
   E minorEm    D MajorD      C majorC      G+G
So I closed my eyes, and I held out my hands
    C majorC             D MajorD
Like my fingers were breaking the laws

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       G+G      C majorC
And there was blueberries, blackberries
G+G        D MajorD
Tumbled into my hand
C majorC            G+G      E minorEm
Rosehips bright with the smell of the night
   C majorC         D MajorD
From off of the summer land

Verse:
     G+G          C majorC
He says, "Little sister stayed home on the island
  G+G         D MajorD   C majorC
She visits us now and again
           G+G       E minorEm
Brings us all she can pick from the hills
    C majorC          D MajorD
And it sure does taste like home"

Instrumental:
G+G  C majorC G+G  D MajorD
D  G+G D MajorD G+G

Verse:
G+G
Well, we stood in the darkness chomping them berries
C majorC           D MajorD
Eating them our of our hand
    E minorEm     D MajorD     C majorC       G+G
And my heart went away to the rocks and the bays
    C majorC            D MajorD
And my friends in that lonesome land

Verse:
     G+G    C majorC           G+G
He says "Tell me, speaking of our mutual friend
     C majorC             D MajorD
How that tough little fast picking fool
  E minorEm      D MajorD      C majorC      G+G
Can find his way through the brambles and rocks
   C majorC          D MajorD
Of a homesick Maine man's soul"

Verse:
      G+G            E minorEm      G+G
"Ah, but I guess he knows when the days get too long
    C majorC         D MajorD
And the morning comes too soon
    E minorEm      D MajorD       C majorC      G+G
There's nothing will knock off the edge of your troubles
   C majorC     D MajorD    G+G
Like picking an old-time tune"

Instrumental:
C majorC   G+G    D MajorD  G+G

Verse:
                E minorEm     G+G
Well, he stowed the empty bag away in his pocket
C majorC           D MajorD
Turned on his heel to go
    E minorEm        D MajorD        C majorC     G+G
And he says, "Well, good luck, and if you see Little Red
    C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
Tell him Pearly says 'Hello'"

Outro:
C majorC   G+G    D MajorD  G+G