Chords for Greg Godovitz - Cousin Mary

I met Brian Pilley in high school when I was 13.
And I remember we bonded.
I think they called it twerk day or something,
where anybody over grade 9 could be hell under you all day long.
And I had the first beetle haircut in my high school.
And Brian brushed the grease out of his and put it forward,
and we both ended up running across the field
pretending we were being chased by girls.
Let's put a band together, you know.
We were 13 years old.
And his brother Ed came back from England.
And I remember the first time we met Ed,
he was three hours late arriving
because he had shoulder-length blonde hair back in 64 when he was in England.
And the bus drivers in Toronto wouldn't pick him up.
And where we met him at the restaurant,
Brian and I were so excited talking about his big brother coming back from England
that we didn't notice that we sat there for a couple of hours,
and nobody served us.
So it was actually like that in Toronto.
If you had long hair back then,
you stood a chance of getting beaten up everywhere you went.
Grease balls, we called them back in those days.
They'd jump on you and cut your hair off if they could.
Of course, at school it was hell because the gym teachers hated our guts.
So it was interesting.
We were sort of pioneering, I guess, back then,
having long hair when nobody did.
And we're talking beetle haircuts, which wasn't that long anyway,
not by the standards of when people grew it down to their waist.
Anyway, we played together for a couple of years.
Our first band was called The Pretty Ones.
There's a stretch.
But we were 13 and 14 and 15 years old,
so we were sort of cute back in those days.
Then Brian and Ed, when they were [G] 16 and 18,
they went back to England,
where they ended up [G#m] in Cat Stevens' band.
And they got to play with Cat.
They did some gigs at the Paris Olympia with Jimi Hendrix,
and I think Engelbert Humperdinck was on the show.
[G]
Strange bills back in those days.
[F#] And then they came back from England,
and they put Flood together.
And I saw the band, and I went,
Oh, I've got to get in this, because I love the vocal harmonies,
because it's what we started playing when we were kids.
So I weaseled my way into the band,
and we recorded four or five albums.
But we had [F] eight.
Back when radio was real,
not that you listen to it these days, but it's different,
we had eight [F#] top ten singles back in those [F] days,
which is great, because I was like 19 years old and 20 years old,
and we had all these records on the radio right across the country.
And this is a song that you guys will probably [A] remember. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [A] Well, Cousin Mary was a [Bm] lady
Who [D] couldn't really [A] hold her own
She went fighting for [Bm] her country
She [D] went fighting [A] for her own
[E] And then there's a time she lost her [F#] husband
He [D] was fighting [F#m] for the right
And she'll [A] be leaving in the morning
[D] Won't you please say [A] goodnight
With _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [A] _ all the money [Bm] in the world
[D] Couldn't tie old [A] Mary down
You can't believe how well she tells you
[D] She's had her [A] turn around
There'll [E] be knights and [F#] kings and all on [D] horses
Ready to [F#] fight _ _
[A] She'll be leaving [Bm] in the morning
Won't [D] you please say [A] goodnight
She'll be leaving [Bm] in the morning
[D] Won't you please say [A] goodbye
[E] Oh, _ _ [A] lovely lady
_ _ _ [E] Oh, _ lovely [A] lady
She's [Bm] always [D] so fair
_ _ _ _ _ _ She'll be [A] leaving in the morning
[D] Won't you please say good [A] care
She'll be leaving [Bm] in the morning
[D] Won't you please say good care
_ [E] Oh, _ lovely [A]
lady
_ _ [E] Oh, _ lovely [A] lady
[B] She's always so [D] fair _ _
_ _ _ _ She'll be [A] leaving in [Bm] the morning
[D] Won't you please say good [A] care
She'll be leaving in the [Bm] morning
Won't [D] you please say good care _
Ah, [Bm] _ _ _ [D] ah _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
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