Grateful Dead – Peggy-O (Guitar)

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[verse 1]
A           D            A
As we rode out to Fennario

 A  A/G#   F#m         C#m
As we rode out to Fennario

    D               A
Our Captain fell in love

  A    A/G#        F#m
With a lady like a dove

 A                   D                  A
And he called her by name, Pretty Peggy-O
[verse 2]
A               D                A
Will you marry me, pretty Peggy-O?

 A    A/G#     F#m        C#m
Will you marry me, pretty Peggy-O?

 D                 A
If you would marry me,

  A           A/G#   F#m
I'll set your cities free

A            D                A
Free all the ladies in the area-o
[verse 3]
A             D                  A
I would marry you, sweet William-O

 A      A/G#  F#m                C#m
I would marry you, sweet William-O

D              A
I would marry you

 A         A/G#   F#m
but your Guineas are too few

A             D                  A
And I fear my mama would be angry-o
[verse 4]
A                      D                 A
What would your mama think, pretty Peggy-O

 A              A/G#   F#m              C#m
What would your mama think, pretty Peggy-O

D                      A
What would your mama think,

  A             A/G#   F#m
if she heard my Guineas clink?

 A                     D                   A
Saw me marching at the head of my soilders-o.

[Solo}
A-D-A-A-A/G#-F#-A-D-A
[verse 5]
A             D                    A
For if ever I return, pretty Peggy-O

 A    A/G#  F#m                C#m
If ever I return, pretty Peggy-O

D          A
If ever I return

  A             A/G#     F#m
All your cities I will burn

A               D                 A
Destroy all the ladies in the area-o
[verse 6]
A                      D                   A
Come steppin down the stairs, pretty Peggy-O

 A     A/G#            F#m                C#m
Come steppin down the stairs, pretty Peggy-O

 D                         A
Come a-steppin down the stairs

  A                A/G#   F#m
Combin' back your yellow hair

  A             D                  A
Bid a last farewell to your William-O
[verse 7]
A                   D                  A
Sweet William he is dead, pretty Peggy-O

 A           A/G#    F#m               C#m
Sweet William he is dead, pretty Peggy-O

  D                  A
Sweet William he is dead,

  A         A/G#   F#m
And he died for a maid

 A                   D               A
And he's burried in Louisana country-O
[verse 8]
A           D          A
As we rode out to Fennario

   A  A/G#    F#m        C#m
As we marched out to Fennario

  D                  A
Our Captain fell in love

  A         A/G#   F#m
With a lady like a dove

 A                   D                  A
And he called her by name, Pretty Peggy-O