Pretty Polly chords by Shovels & Rope

Chords with lyrics

verse 1
C majorC     G+G    D MajorD   G+G
Polly was girl not yet sixteen
 C majorC       G+G      D MajorD
I met her by the lake in the fall
  C majorC   G+G       D MajorD     G+G
Our love unfurled like a warm, sick dream
    E minorEm               D MajorD
It's a shame I had to go and waste it all

verse 2
C majorC       G+G      D MajorD      G+G
When we were together everything was alright
  C majorC      G+G       D MajorD
We shared everything we could share
C majorC      G+G         D MajorD    G+G
Easy like a feather till that one midnight
     E minorEm            D MajorD              G+G
When she hit me with that under my spell and I couldn't let her go
               A minorAm
For the child that she would bear
             D MajorD
My arms were turning into rope

Pre-Chorus
 C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
I couldn't let her go
 C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
I couldn't let her stay
 C majorC   G+G   D MajorD     C majorC    G+G   D MajorD
I buried pretty Polly in a poor, pathetic grave

  E minorEm      D MajorD    G+G       C majorC    E minorEm  D MajorD
Now she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay lay
  E minorEm      D MajorD    G+G       C majorC    E minorEm  D MajorD
Ah, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay lay

verse 3
C majorC        G+G   D MajorD    G+G
Stranded in the Tivoli parking lot
  C majorC    G+G     D MajorD
No gas, no money, no love
C majorC       G+G       D MajorD      G+G
Promised to a promise that I wouldn't get caught
    E minorEm          D MajorD             G+G
But the dark sky handed me a gun and I couldn't let it go
          A minorAm          D MajorD
All the beauty up above I could never control
 C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
I couldn't let her go

Pre-Chorus
 C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
I couldn't let her go
 C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
I couldn't let her stay
 C majorC   G+G   D MajorD     C majorC    G+G   D MajorD
I placed pretty Polly in a poor, pathetic grave

     E minorEm      D MajorD    G+G       C majorC    E minorEm  D MajorD
And then she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay lay
  E minorEm      D MajorD    G+G       C majorC    G+G  D MajorD  E minorEm G+G  D MajorD   E minorEm
Ah, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay lay

Bridge
 C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
I couldn't let her go
 C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
I couldn't let her stay
 C majorC  G+G  D MajorD
I ran like hell
 C majorC  G+G D MajorD
I ran a-way
 C majorC  G+G  D MajorD
I ran like hell
     C majorC  G+G   D MajorD
From that hell that I made
     C majorC   G+G D MajorD
From the mouth of babes
  C majorC   G+G   D MajorD
The mouth of the babes
C majorC  G+G   D MajorD
Poor pretty Polly
  C majorC  G+G    D MajorD
The wolf and the prey

     E minorEm      D MajorD    G+G       C majorC    E minorEm  D MajorD
And then she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay lay
  E minorEm      D MajorD    G+G       C majorC    E minorEm  D MajorD
Ah, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay lay
  E minorEm      D MajorD    G+G       C majorC
Ah, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay
E minorEm    D MajorD    G+G    C majorC
She lay, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay
E minorEm    D MajorD      G+G    C majorC         E minorEm
She lay, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay, she lay

Outro
E minorEm  E minorEm  E minorEm  E minorEm