David Allan Coe – Maria Is A Mystery (Guitar)

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Maria has a music box she winds up most every day

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Once a week is all it takes, to make the music play

F                             Bb
Melody is just some childhood lullaby her mother

        F            C
Used to sing to her.

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And the road down to the city, goes right by Maria's door

  Bb                               G
I often walk right by her house on my way to the store

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Up there where those Italian mothers

            Bb           C
Dress their shivering bambinos

        F
For the rain.

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She tells me about Jesus, and all his gallant men

Bb          C       F
I tell her about fantasy

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Maria she's this lady, on the way down to the river

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Maria she's a mystery

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Maria she's a mystery.

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Yeah passing by this morning, I drew a picture in my head

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Our bodies in some candlelight that glowed upon our skin

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Maybe if I touched her, she would disappear

     C           F
Like angels in a dream.