INTRO: D Bm G A7sus4
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Mary queen of Arkansas, it's not too early for dreaming
D Dsus4 D Dsus4 G Bm F#m
The sky is grown with cloud seed sown and a bastard's love can be redeeming
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Mary, my queen, your soft hulk is reviving
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No, you're not too late to desecrate, the servants are just rising
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Well I'm just a lonely acrobat, the live wire is my trade
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I've been a shine boy for your acid brat and a wharf rat of your state
G A7sus4 Dsus4 D
Mary, my queen, your blows for freedom are missing
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Woah you're not man enough for me to hate or woman enough for kissing
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Oh the big top is for dreamers, we can take the circus all the way to the border
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Oh and the gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order
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But I was not born to live to die and you were not born for queening
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Woah it's not too late to infiltrate, the servants are just leaving
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Mary queen of Arkansas, your white skin is deceiving
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You wake and wait ooh to lie in bait and you almost got me believing
G A7sus4 A7 Dsus4
But on your bed Mary I can see the shadow of a noose
G A7sus4 Dsus4 D
Woah I don't understand how you can hold me so tight and love me so damn loose
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But I know a place where we can go, Mary
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Where I can get a good job and start out all over again clean
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Woah I got contacts deep in Mexico where the servants have been seen