Pretty Mary K - Other Version chords by Elliott Smith

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: D

A7sus2: x02000

riff:
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|-----0-----------|
E|-3-4-------------|

slide:
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|-----------------|
E|-1/3-------------|

Intro:

A7sus2
(x4, played with occasional hammer-ons on the 3rd fret of the G string)


Verse 1:
A7sus2      Em  F               C
Pretty Mary K   walks along the dock
A7sus2             Em  F                  C
with some sailor's pay shoved down in her sock
            Em  Bb                      F  C
Pretty Mary K
with some little boy in blue
    slide: F     Em  G    C
Who can't   stay away from you


Verse 2:
riff: A7sus2      Em  F                   C
       Pretty Mary K      took him back to town
A7sus2               Em  F                  C
I'm down here by the bay
where the water pounds
               Em    Bb                   F  C
Up against the wall
crying black and blue
   slide:  F   Em  G    C
It keeps    me away from you


Chorus 1:
riff: Am       G#             C
         Pretty words that you whisper
riff: Am      G#        C
         Maybe I misunderstood
riff: Am           G#          C                  B
         Somebody's not paying attention when they promised
          F          Fm
And their word isn't good


Verse 3:
       A7sus2         Em  F              C
             Oh, Mary K
I can see your face
A7sus2                  Em     F               C
      Down there in the waves
painted and erased
                Em
But I know it's just
Bb                    F  C
  a reflection of the moon
  slide: F      Em  G    C
A big     fake resem-bling you


Chorus 2:
riff: Am      G#             C
         Gonna go down in the water
riff: Am        G#               C
         Fill my mouth up full of sand
riff: Am        G#              C               B         F
         I'll be waiting still impatient with my dead imagination
                             Fm
While you're with some other man


Verse 4:
A7sus2            Em  F                  C
      Pretty Mary K
off in somebody's room
A7sus2                     Em  F                       C
      I'm down here by the bay  with my arm around the moon
                     Em
But I'll be with you soon
Bb                     F
  just as soon as I've paid
     C     slide:   F                 Em   G   C
I'll walk across the water with pretty Ma - ry  K
     slide: F            Em   G   C
Walk on the  water pretty Ma - ry  K