The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker chords by Prince (Ver. 2)

[Intro]

A9/E A+9/E Em

Am9/E E7 Em7 A9/E Am7/E B/E Em


[Verse 1]

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  Dorothy was a waitress on the promenade

Em7         A9/E
  She worked the night shift

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  Dishwater blonde, tall and fine

     Em
She got a lot of tips


[Verse 2]

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Well, earlier I’d been talkin’ stuff in a violent room

Em7           A9/E
  Fightin’ with lover’s past

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I needed someone with a quicker wit than mine

      Em
Dorothy was fast


[Verse 3]

 Am9/E          E7
Well, I ordered - "Yeah, let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain’t to hungry"

Em7        A9/E
  Dorothy laughed

        Am7/E
She said - "It sound like a real man tome (you’re kinda cute)

       B/E          Em
You’re kinda cute, you wanna take a bath?" (Do you wanna, do you wanna?) ... Bath?


[Verse 4]

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Oh, I said - "Cool, but I’m leavin’ my pants on (What you say?)

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Cuz I’m kinda goin’ with someone"

      Am7/E            B/E
She said - "Sound like a real man to me

         Em
Mind if I turn on the radio?"


[Bridge 1]

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"Oh, my favorite song," she said

      G7  G     Am G   G7  G
And it was Joni singing, "Help me, I think I’m falling"

       G7  G
(Drring) The phone rang and she said

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"Whoev er’s calling can’t be as cute as you"

Em
  Right then and there I knew I was through (Dorothy Parker was cool)


[Interlude]

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[Verse 5]

  Em
My pants were wet, they came off

But she didn’t see the movie cuz she hadn’t read the book first

Esus4 E/F Em E/F Em E/F E7sus4

 Am9/E        E7
Instead she pretended she was blind

  Em7                A9/E
An affliction brought on by a witch’s curse

    Am7/E
Dorothy made me laugh (ha ha, ha ha)

            B/E           Em
I felt much better so I went back to the violent room

(Tell us what you did, what you did) Let me tell you what I did


[Bridge 2]

G         G7 G  Gsus4 G    G7 G Gsus4
  I took another bubble bath with my pants on

G     G7 G  Gsus4
 All the fighting stopped

G       G7  G Am7 Am11 Am7 Am11
Next time I’ll do it sooner

      Am7 Am11  Am9b5  Am9
This is the bal lad of Dorothy Parker


[Outro]

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