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Date: 5/19/03; 7:29:10 PM
 >From: Wilma Swinimer <wilmas@bwr.eastlink.ca>
 Subject: Song Lyrics & Chords
                                MARY ANN REGRETS
                                    - Burl Ives -
 (C) I saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some (F) flowers,
       For Sat-(G7)-urday's date and I restlessly counted the (C) hours;
       To-day in the mail I received this C7) short little (F) note,
       And I (G7) broke down and cried at the message her mother (C) wrote.
 Chorus:
    (C) Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you (F) again,
          We're leav-(G7)-ing for Euorpe next week, she'll be busy till (C)
 then;
          I can't eat I can't sleep for over and (C7) over(F) again,
          My (G7) mind reads that letter and I cry for my Mary (C) Ann.
 
       The weeks have passed by not a word have I heard since then,
       In the papers I read of the far away places she's been;
       I know that she loves me, but poor boys don't fit in their plans,
       Good-bye to love, good-bye to my Mary Ann.
 
      My Mary Ann died, 'tis said she just wasted away,
      If I had been with her I know she'd be living to-day;
      I know that she loved me and if they'd have left us alone,
      To-day she'd be wearing my ring, not a blanket of stone.
                              Chorus
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