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Oh Marie

(Sheryl Crow/Jeff Trott/Bill Bottrell)

CAPO 1

Verse Strum Pattern:

D D U U M U

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

INTRO: G - 4X

G F#7 C Em

Here she comes, she's all dressed up in daisies

G F#7 C Em

Half the time you'd swear that she is crazy

Am

Flowered drinks and a low-cut dress

B

That's the way I know her best

Am

She says she's lonely, how could she be?

B

Every night she's got company

Chorus:

C Em

Oh, Marie

D C Bm Am

I sure hope you're happy

C Em

Oh, Marie

D C Bm Am

What about me, Marie

G F#7 C Em

She likes the way she looks in her camaro

G F#7 C Em

She likes lingerie but he prefers the sombrero

Am

She's so famous on the block

B

She stumbles home around four o'clock

Am

She claims the guys are hard to please

B

She wears teen perfume behind her knees

Chorus

Solo:

Am Em C G Am Em C D C Bm Am

G F#7 C Em

All day long she fills me up with dogma

G F#7 C Em

She's all magazines and Benzedrine and vodka

Am

There was one man she truly loved

B

He took everything but her bear-skin rug

Am

And now and then it's clear to me

B

That need is love and love is need

Chorus

C Em

Oh, Marie

D C Bm Am

What are you looking for

C Em

Oh, Marie

D C Bm Am

Always an open door

D C Bm Am G

What are you looking for

This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.