Chords for New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Take A Letter Maria

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[Bbm] It'll get along. _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ [Db] Can we have a couple of glasses, Pete, [B] please, up here?
[C] I mean, because [Bb] it's hard to drink the beer out of [G] the pitcher.
It spills all over.
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_ _ [C] _ [G] Last [C] night as I came home
About half [G] past ten
There was no [C] woman I thought I knew
In the arms of [G] another man
I get my [C] cool, I ain't no fool
Let me tell you [G] what happened then
I [C] packed some things in, I walked out
Oh, then I ain't coming [G] back again
I take a letter, Maria
I [F] dress it in my wine
[C] Say I won't be coming home
[G] I'm gonna start a new life
I take a letter, Maria
I [F] dress it in my wine
[Am] [C] Send a copy to my lawyer
[G] I'm gonna start a new life
Now you've been asking things [C] but most of all
A good [G] secretary to me
And it's times like [C] this I feel
You've always [G] been close to me
I've been working [C] alone at night
Trying to [G] make a good [A] life
But [G] all [C] work and no play has just cost me [G] a wife
I take a letter, Maria
[F] I dress it in my wine
[C] _ Say I won't be coming [G] home
I'm gonna start a new life
I take a letter, Maria
[F] I dress it in my wine
[C] Send a copy to my lawyer
[G] I'm gonna start a new life Alright
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ a man loves a [C] woman
It's hard to [G] _ understand
She could find [C] more pleasure
In the arms of another man _
[G] I've never [C] really noticed
How sweet you [G] are to me
It just [C] so happens I'm pretty nice
Just like to have dinner with [G] me
I take a letter, Maria
I [F] dress it in my wine
_ [C] Say I won't be coming home
I'm [G] gonna start a new life
I take a letter, Maria
I [F] dress it in my wine
[C] Send a copy to my lawyer
[G] I'm gonna start a new life
I take a letter, _ Maria
[F] I dress it in my wine
[C] Say I won't be coming home
[G] I'm gonna start a new life
I take a letter, Maria _
[F] I dress it [C] in my wine
Send a copy to my lawyer
Yeah, [G] I'm gonna start a new life
A letter, a letter, a letter
A letter, a [F] [G] letter, a letter, [Gm] Maria
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Oh my _ Maria _ _ _ _
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] Yeah, a letter, [G] Maria
_ I won't tell her, you tell her
You tell her, you [F] tell her
That I won't be coming home
No [C] more, I'm going
I'm [G] going with Maria
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] letter, a letter
Thank [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
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