Xavier Rudd – The Wind Cries Mary (Guitar)

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Chords

[Verse 1]
                C        Bb              F  Fsus4  F
After all the jacks are all up in their boxes

        C           Bb          F  Fsus4  F
And the clowns have all gone to bed

        C    Bb                    F         Fsus4  F
You can hear happiness staggering down the street

        G                   Bb         Eb E F
Oh, the footprints are all dressed in red

        G    Bb         Eb E F     Eb E F
And the wind whispers Mary
[Verse 2]
C  Bb              F  Fsus4  F
A broom is drearily sweeping

       C     Bb                         F  Fsus4  F
Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life

C        Bb              F  Fsus4  F
Somewhere a queen, she is weeping

        G    Bb         Eb E F
Somewhere, a king has no wife

           G    Bb         Eb E F    Eb E F
And the wind, it cries Mary
[Instrumental] F Eb Bb F F Eb Bb C F Eb Bb F G Bb Db F Eb Bb F x2 Bb F Bb F [Verse 3]
    C               Bb                F  Fsus4  F
The traffic lights, they turn blue tomorrow

            C               Bb           F  Fsus4  F
Shine their emptiness right down upon my bed

         C   Bb               F Fsus4  F
And the tiny island sags on downstream

           G       Bb         Eb E F
All the life once lived is now dead

        G    Bb         Eb E F    Eb E F
And the wind screams Mary
[Verse 4]
         C    Bb        F  Fsus4  F
Will the wind ever remember

     C           Bb               F  Fsus4  F
The names it has blown in the past?

         C               Bb              F  Fsus4  F
With its crutch, and its old age, and its wisdom

       G         Bb                 Eb E F
Oh, it whispers no, this will be the last

        G    Bb         Eb E F    Eb E F    Eb E F    Eb E F
And the wind cries Mary