Mary Lou (Acoustic) Chords

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Mary Lou (Acoustic) by Sonata Arctica is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D9, Dm, F, Bb, C, Gm and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Afinação: meio tom abaixo 
 
 
Intro: D9 Dm 
 
Dm                             F             Bb       C 
Mamas put your babies to sleep, story too cruelsome for 
          Bb C    Dm                                       F    Bb              C 
them this is. In Junior high she said goodbye to her parents and ran 
                    Bb C   Gm                F           C             Dm     Gm          F 
away with a boy. She left her family warm and kind, all of her friends said 
  C                              Dm        C                                           Dm 
"you're out of your mind". Life of her own she would find,  
C                                                Bb C 
it's monday and she's gotta grind. 
 
Dm                                       F                   Bb      C 
A Job as a waitress she sure was to find, beautiful face, 
Bb               C      Dm                                  F                  Bb      C 
mind of a child. Boy got her pregnant, Mary-Lou cried," For this I am 
                                   Bb         C     Gm                     F               C        Dm       Gm 
too young oh why did you lie" You said "it's okay if we do it today", I was 
         F                        C               Dm         C                                             Dm 
so scared that you would go away. "Despite all the papers been signed,  
C                                           A 
mama take me back be so kind". 
 
Dm         C                             F                         Bb 
Only a child, reckless and wild, needs to come 
                       Dm                          C                         Bb     F       C 
home again. He promised the moon but won't marry you.  
Dm                C                     F                         Bb 
Nothing to do, eating for two, he's goin' out with 
              C  Dm                         C                        Bb                    F 
someone new. Sunshine or rain, it's all the same, life isn't gray 
           Dm       D9 
oh Mary-Lou. 
 
Dm                            F                  Bb     C          
Mamas do your children still sleep, in the safe of their 
Bb              C           Dm                        F           Bb       C 
cradles so sweet. Story I told you I have forseen, Your little angel ain't 
Bb              C          Gm         F         C                  Dm      Gm         F             C 
always so clean. Days to come aren't easy to see, You can change 'em but 
            Dm    C                               Dm             A                         Bb C 
it isn't free. I see that you don't believe, ooo-oo, but you will see. 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante