Nick Lowe – Marie Provost (Guitar)

G                      C        D
 Marie Provost did not look her best

G                              C      D
The day the cops bust into her lonely nest

G                        Em
In the cheap hotel up on Hollywood West

C            D
 July Twenty Nine

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She'd been lying there for two or three weeks

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The neighbours said they never heard a squeak

G                      Em
While hungry eyes that could not speak

C                              D
 Said even little doggies have got to eat

          G      D/F#                        C    C/B Am
She was a winner      that became a doggie's dinner

                             G
She never meant that much to me

          C  D          G  C  G  D
Who oh oh oh oh poor Ma-rie

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Marie Provost was a movie queen

G                       C      D
Mysterious angel of the silent screen

G                                  Em
And run like the wind the nation's young men steamed

C                       D
 When Marie crossed the silent screen

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Woah she came out west from New York

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But when the talkies came Mar-ie just couldn't cope

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The public said Mar-ie take a walk

C                    D
 All the way back to New York

          G      D/F#                        C    C/B Am
She was a winner      that became a doggie's dinner

                             G
She never meant that much to me

          C  D          G  C  G  D
But now I see  poor Mar-ie

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Those quaalude bombs didn't help her sleep

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As her nights grew long and her days grew bleak

G                     G/F#    Em
It's all downhill once you've passed your peak

C                         D
 Marie got ready for that last big sleep

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The cops came in and they looked a-round

G                           C           D
Throwing up everywhere over what they'd found

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The handiwork of Marie's little dachs-hund

C                   D
 That hungry little dachshund!

          G     D/F#                          C    C/B Am
She was a winner       that became a doggie's dinner

                             G
She never meant that much to me

          C  D          G  C  G  D
Who oh oh oh oh poor Ma-rie

        G  C  G  D
Poor Ma-rie

        G  C  G  D
Poor Ma-rie

             G  C  G  D
Poor poor Ma-rie

        G  C  G  D
Poor Ma-rie

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Poor Ma-rie