Chords for Hal Ketchum, I Miss My Mary

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_ I was _ again still living in Maine, Texas, working [D#] as a teleprompter, and I got a call
from Jerry Jeff Walker. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ He heard me on a show called Folkways, the David Oberman show on KT radio, and he said,
Hal, [F#] Jerry Jeff, I said, really?
He said, yeah, really is.
_ _ [D#] I thought, I like what you're doing, and I'm looking for some [G] shows for you.
[G#] I said, sir, that [E] sounds exciting.
I said, well, [G#] I'm going to make break, because we can't show this.
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_ I went to the airport in Austin, _ and _ _ _ _ got on a twin-engine Navajo airplane.
_ _ Jerry Jeff, my buddy, his tour manager, _ and a pilot named Captain Lane Bybee, whose motto
was, eight hours from the bottom to the top.
I _ _ _ _ _ mean, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
we were maybe about half as tall as this building, flying across West Texas, through
New Mexico, _ _ _ into _ [C#] Arizona, played a couple shows there, and then up the coast of [N] California. _
_ _ And it was like a key to the economy. _ _ _ _ _ _
Jerry calls it herbal song enhancer.
_ [C#] Couldn't _ _ _ _ find that.
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_ _ 40 _ _ _ -acre channel.
_ _ So, [F] _ _
[F#] moving on, maybe on the way up the coast, we'd [F] actually gone out and searched for, [G] you
know, a few [F] whales.
We'd go watching [A] a habitat [Gm] feudal.
_ [N] _ It was San Simeon in Northern California.
Tourists jumping under the bus. _
It was 85. _ _
So I had a day off in Northern California, and I procured the rental car.
And it was the last rental car that anybody ever lent.
Jerry Jeff did.
_ _ His motto was, don't be gentle with your rental.
_ _ And then he went and got out of here.
And I followed the bar up in Santa Rosa, called the Orchard Inn.
And it was kind of being beaten by the landscape, glistening into the side of the hill, moss
covered and beautiful.
And I opened the door, and the door swings hard to the left, and the floor of the bar
was down about three inches. _
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_ [G] And there was a guy sitting on two bar stools, [F#] the biggest mountain of a man, had a neck
brace on, and a beautiful Japanese tattoo.
[N] _ _ _ _ I spent the afternoon talking to this guy.
His name was [B] Chief, and he was a long-stroller.
He'd been in the Navy for years.
And he was [E] pining over the loss of his Mary. _
He had left four hours to the day.
[F#] _ _
He's crying on my [F] shoulder.
It was a tough afternoon [C#] for me.
I got back to Wimberley safely.
_ [N] And this song is now on the radio.
This is Chief's life story, as I imagined it.
And this is called I Miss My Mary.
I miss my Mary.
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_ _ A [D] threadbarer on the by, _ life turned full [A] of promise, fell from my Mary's eyes.
Wish she saw the screen, don't [F#] sweat it. _ _ _ _
[D] Big man in [A] a boat, [E] he lay [F#m] cradled in her [A] tram line. _ _ _
He lay safe but never [D] known what my [E] leaving [A] would bring. _ _ _
Draw my pay down [D] on the dock, _ _ sit then [A] off to the island.
_ My whole bag of dollars, he washed this pain out of [E] my mind.
_ _ _ [E] _ [D] The day keeps getting clearer, [A] _ [F#m] Mary, your face just [D] keeps on fading. _ _ _ _
Now the light shines through this bottle, [E] memories all [A] fade to black. _ _
Well, [D] I'll see you out on the street tonight.
[F#m] I'd love to have a drink, love to have a fight.
[D] I hold my own on the dark side of this [A] _ town.
_ Yes, [D] I'm tough as nails, got a heart of steel.
[A] I will never fear for all that I [F#] feel.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [D] One more round, surely set [E] me right.
[C] I miss my Mary _ [A] tonight. _ _ _ _
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They call me the old man in [D] this barn, _ sleeves roll [A] up and short.
_ _ Faint blues to the mirrors of love, the places [F#] I have been.
_ _ _ [D] This one says the U [A].S.A., and this [F#] one says [D] darling Mary.
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My worries turn to [D] ashes, my [E]
delusions turn [A] to gin. _ _
Well, I'll [F#] see you [D] out on the street tonight.
[F#m] I'd love to have a drink, [C#] love to have a fight.
[D] I hold my own on the dark side [A] of this town. _
_ Yes, [D] I'm tough as nails, got a heart of steel.
I will [A] never fear for all that I [F#] feel.
_ _ _ _ [D] One more round, surely set me [F#] right.
I miss [A#] my Mary _ [A] tonight. _ _ _
Yeah, [D] one more round, surely set [E] me right.
I miss [C#m] my Mary _ [A] tonight.
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