Jenny chords by Steve Taylor

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: D MajorD

Difficulty: Novice

intro:
   D MajorD    G+G       D MajorD     G+G

   D MajorD    A augmentedA       D MajorD     A2
On a Saturday night all the girls run free
     B minorBm   F# minorF#m    B minorBm    F# minorF#m
Singing "bury me not on the lone prairie"
  D MajorD      A augmentedA      D MajorD       EsusEsus
But where do you go when you finish broken-hearted?
 A augmentedA      F#F#       B minorBm
--back to the dust where you started

verse 1:
D MajorD       G+G    A augmentedA     F#F#
Jenny cut her teeth in a mid-west shack
   B minorBm     G+G      A augmentedA        F#F#
As a shantytown girl on the wrong end of the tracks
   B minorBm       G+G     A augmentedA         F#F#
Her mama taught her everything she'd need to get along
      B minorBm      G+G        F#susF#sus   F#F#
And her Sunday School teacher taught her right and wrong
 A augmentedA              G+G
Raised to be respectable but born to be poor
      B minorBm     Bm/D      E minorEm     F#F#
It was all she'd ever known but she figured there was more
  B minorBm      G+G    A augmentedA        F#F#
When she came of age Jenny made herself a vow
   B minorBm    G+G     F#susF#sus   F#F#
"I'm gonna get out and I don't care how"

   B minorBm    G+G     A2     F#7F#7
   B minorBm    G+G     A augmentedA     F#7F#7

verse 2:
   D MajorD      G+G     A augmentedA       F#F#
It appeared every Autumn on the courthouse lawn
    B minorBm      G+G    A augmentedA         F#F#
And the leaves never fell till the carnival was gone
B minorBm      G+G       A augmentedA   F#F#
Michael was a barker for an arcade ride
    B minorBm     G+G      F#susF#sus   F#F#
With a smooth-talk tongue and a wandering eye
   A augmentedA             G+G
"Get your tickets here for the Halls O'Mirrors maze
    B minorBm    Bm/D  E minorEm     F#F#
If you can't get out I know a couple ways"
  B minorBm       G+G      A augmentedA        F#F#
He caught Jenny's eye but her thoughts looked down
    B minorBm      G+G      F#susF#sus
All she wanted was a ticket going out of that town

chorus:
F#F#
She cried, she cried, oh
B minorBm       G+G
Oh how I wanna bury you
B minorBm       G+G     A augmentedA
Oh bury you and run away--done away
B minorBm       G+G     A augmentedA
Oh how I wanna bury your memory
B minorBm E minorEm F#F#              B minorBm G+G A2 F#7F#7   B minorBm G+G A augmentedA
     Why don't you let me be?

verse 3:
    D MajorD      G+G     A augmentedA        F#F#
Michael stole a kiss first then he whispered at last
     B minorBm     G+G      A augmentedA         F#F#
"you're a little old-fashioned so forget about your past
   B minorBm     G+G     A augmentedA      F#F#
These Bible belt folks think living is a sin
    B minorBm       G+G      F#susF#sus     F#F#
So they all start dying from the day they're born again"
     A augmentedA             G+G
And there atop the Ferris wheel the colours were a blur
    B minorBm      Bm/D      E minorEm     F#F#
The morning said he loved her but she wasn't really sure
    B minorBm     G+G      A augmentedA        F#F#
He made her promise not to leave until he came to get her
  B minorBm       G+G        F#susF#sus
She promised him but she should have known better

chorus:
F#F#
She cried, she cried, oh
B minorBm       G+G
Oh how I wanna bury you
B minorBm       G+G     A augmentedA
Oh bury you and run away--done away
B minorBm       G+G     A augmentedA
Oh how I wanna bury your memory
B minorBm E minorEm F#F#              B minorBm G+G A2 F#7F#7   B minorBm G+G A augmentedA
     Why don't you let me be?

bridge:
B minorBm    G+G    A2     F#F#
                Oh, Jenny...

F# minorF#m    A augmentedA    BB     G#G#
C# minorC#m    A augmentedA    BB     C#m7C#m7 B/D#B/D# E MajorE      Amaj7Amaj7
               On  a   train--stowaway
C# minorC#m              BB
Jesus loves you still and your mama wants you home
    E MajorE     Amaj7Amaj7
But oh  bridges burn
     C# minorC#m           B2        G#G#
When you carry your shame and you think you can't return

chorus:
C# minorC#m      A augmentedA
Oh how I wanna bury you
C# minorC#m       A augmentedA     BB
Oh bury you and run away--done away
C# minorC#m      A augmentedA     BB
Oh how I wanna bury your memory
C# minorC#m      F#F#    G#G#

verse 4:
     C# minorC#m       A augmentedA    BB      G# minorG#m
When they finally found her body on a cold dog day
    C# minorC#m    A augmentedA  BB       G#G#
It was in a cattle car buried in the hay
 C# minorC#m     A augmentedA     BB     G# minorG#m
A augmentedA note in the pocket of her calico dress
     C# minorC#m    A augmentedA   G# minorG#m
Said "I'm guilty as sin but I can't confess"
    B2             A2
Once you know the truth you can hide it on a shelf
       C# minorC#m    C#m/E     F#F#      G# minorG#m
But unless you bring it down you can't live with yourself
    C# minorC#m    A augmentedA     B2        G# minorG#m
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
  C# minorC#m   F# minorF#m      G#G#
Jenny had a pistol in the other

outro:
   D MajorD    G+G       D MajorD     G+G
   D MajorD    A augmentedA       D MajorD     A2
On a Saturday night all the girls run free
     B minorBm   F# minorF#m    B minorBm    F# minorF#m
Singing "bury me not on the lone prairie"
  D MajorD      A augmentedA      D MajorD       EsusEsus
But where do you go when you finish broken-hearted?
A augmentedA      F#F#       B minorBm
Back to the dust where you started