Misc Originals – Big John Khatt And The Highland Blues Band - Mary Ann Regrets (Guitar)

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Mary Ann Regrets: Big John Khatt And The Highland Blues Band Recorded in Germany (with permission) in Dec. 1962. (Burl Ives made this Harlan Howard song a hit at #39 on BB Hot 100 in 1962.)
(Intro)
 G           A                    D
(Ooooo-ooooo-ooooo....ooooo-ooooo-ooooo..)
(Verse 1)
D                                             A
I saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some flowers.

A                                                D
For Saturday's date and I restlessly counted the hours.

D                                                   G
Then today in the mail I received this short little note.

      D                        A                       D
And I broke down inside at the message that her mother wrote.
(Chorus)
D                                        A
Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you again.

A                                                       D
We're leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy till then.

D                                                D7
They know that she loves me, but poor boys don't fit in their 

G
plan.

     D                   A                 D
Good-bye true love, good-bye my sweet Mary Ann.
(Verse 2)
D                                                    A
The weeks have gone by not a word have I heard since then.

A                                                 D
In the papers I read of the far away places she's been.

D                                            G
I can't eat, I can't sleep for over and over again,

   D                          A                 D
my mind reads that letter and I cry for my Mary Ann.
(Chorus)
D                                        A
Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you again.

A                                                       D
We're leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy till then.

D                                                D7
They know that she loves me, but poor boys don't fit in their 

G
plan.

     D                   A                 D
Good-bye true love, good-bye my sweet Mary Ann.
(Verse 3)
D                                           A
My Mary Ann died, they said she just wasted away.

A                                               D
If I could have seen her I know she'd be living today.

D                           D7                     G
For we loved each other and if they'd have left us alone,

  D                       A                      D
today she'd be wearing my ring, not a blanket of stone.
(Chorus)
D                                        A
Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you again.

A                                                       D
We're leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy till then.

D                                                D7
They knew that she loved me, but poor boys don't fit in their 

G
plan.

     D                   A                 D
Good-bye true love, good-bye my sweet Mary Ann.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.