Jenny chords by Steve Taylor

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Novice

intro:
     D        G             D         G

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

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

      Bm       G         A2         F#7
      Bm       G         A          F#7

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


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

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

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

bridge:
Bm        G        A2         F#
                               Oh, Jenny...

F#m       A        B          G#
C#m       A        B          C#m7 B/D#  E           Amaj7
                              On   a     train--stowaway
C#m                            B
Jesus loves you still and your mama wants you home
       E          Amaj7
But oh    bridges burn
         C#m                      B2                G#
When you carry your shame and you think you can't return

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

verse 4:
          C#m              A       B           G#m
When they finally found her body on a cold dog day
       C#m        A   B              G#
It was in a cattle car buried in the hay
  C#m         A         B          G#m
A note in the pocket of her calico dress
          C#m       A      G#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#m       C#m/E         F#            G#m
But unless you bring it down you can't live with yourself
       C#m        A          B2               G#m
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
   C#m      F#m           G#
Jenny had a pistol in the other

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