Mary Would Have Wanted It That Way chords by Cal Smith

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: D MajorD

♫ Intro:

D MajorD   B minorBm   G+G   D MajorD   E minorEm   A augmentedA   D MajorD   D MajorD

♫ Verse 1:
D MajorD         B minorBm     G+G       D MajorD
The fever took my Mary on the eighth of January
  E minorEm      A augmentedA       D MajorD
So, I laid her to rest in Santa Fe
           B minorBm    G+G      D MajorD
I planned to sell her rings to pay for everything
E minorEm               A augmentedA  A7A7
Mary would have wanted it that way

   D MajorD      B minorBm    G+G       D MajorD
And I made little Johnny a bed in our old Chevy
  E minorEm      A augmentedA        D MajorD
And told him everything would be ok
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I told him that mommy had gone to live with Jesus
   E minorEm       A augmentedA       D MajorD
Cause Mary would have wanted it that way

♫ Chorus:
D MajorD                G+G       D MajorD
When Johnny fell asleep I struck out for Tennessee
  E minorEm        A augmentedA        D MajorD
At times I'd cry so hard I couldn't drive
         D7D7        G+G      D MajorD
But God found me traveling down a lonely Texas highway
E minorEm               G+G     D MajorD
Trying to smile for Johnny with Mary on my mind

♫ Verse 2:
          B minorBm   G+G       D MajorD
When we got to Texarkana my pockets needed money
  E minorEm      A augmentedA       D MajorD
So I sold Mary's old blue Chevrolet
            B minorBm   G+G         D MajorD
It was hard to sell the car she worked so hard to pay for
   E minorEm              A augmentedA  A7A7
But I knew that she'd have done the same

    D MajorD        B minorBm      G+G       D MajorD
Then we caught a smoking greyhound to take us on to Nashville
    E minorEm       A augmentedA         D MajorD
And the humming of the wheels sang us to sleep
       D7D7        G+G     D MajorD
We woke up in Little Rock at a cafe at a truck stop
E minorEm        A augmentedA       D MajorD
Thankful that we had enough to eat

♫ Verse 3:
           B minorBm       G+G        D MajorD
The bus drove down to Jackson and we had to spend the night
  E minorEm             A augmentedA      D MajorD
And that's where he taught his daddy how to pray
         B minorBm       G+G        D MajorD
We prayed for his mother then we prayed for one another
E minorEm            A augmentedA  A7A7
Mary always wanted me to pray

♫ Chorus:
  D MajorD               G+G      D MajorD
Now all that's left of Mary is her memory and a baby
  E minorEm         A augmentedA     D MajorD
But that's a lot for a Santa Fe DJ
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It's enough to make me wanna live and die for little Johnny
  E minorEm       A augmentedA       D MajorD
And Mary would have wanted it that way