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