Melancholy Polly chords by Allison Moorer

VERSE 1:

D5          E5              B5           E5  D5*
Melancholy Polly spills her guts on stage

D5                Em          Bm        D5
She can't get her jollies any other way

C5              D5            G       D5* E5
Safe inside the music and the melody

A5                           B5*          D5
Polly gets to lose it and no one can see


VERSE 2:

G*           Em             Bm         D
She is not a starlet with a red guitar

G*           Em           Bm          D
Just an easy target for a broken heart

C            D              G          Em*
Peddling her story up there all alone

C          D        G               Gsus4 G
Is another allegory carved in stone


BRIDGE:

          F
She would ransom her fate

       E
If she had some escape

        Am          Adim
But her words are a curse

      Am7         D
Every rhyme every line and verse


INSTRUMENTAL:
Am D
Am Am7 D


VERSE 3:

G*              Em               Bm          D
In front of the footlights Polly takes a bow

G*                 Em               Bm            D Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
Waves and says her goodnight to the drunken crowd

C                 D                  G            Em*
When the house is clapping she knows what it means

C             D                G         Em Bm D G
Her life only happens for a song to sing