Tonart: G major
Verse 1
E
Am
Mrs.
Molly Jenkins sells
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Am
her wares in town
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Am
Saturdays, in the evening,
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Am
G
when the farmhands come around
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F
Dm
And she sows all their names
Em
Am
G
in her gown
F
Fsus4
Fm
Ah, but is she happy?
Bb
Gm
No no no
Bb
Ebsus4
She wants a better home
Db
Eb
Fm
and a better kind of life
But how is she going to get
Bb
the things she wants,
Gm
Bb
Gm
Db
The things she needs as some
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Gsus4
poor wretch of a farmer's wife
G
Gm
Fsus4
He trades the milk for booze
F
Bb
And Molly wants new shoes
Eb
D
And as she snuggles down
With a stranger in some
Eb
back of the barroom bed
D
It's much too dark to the see the stranger
Eb
Baug
G
Am
So she thinks of shoes instead
Old Man Horace Jenkins stays at home
to tend to his schemes
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Em
Am
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Am
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Sends for pictures of black stockings on
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G
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G
paper leg s with paper seams and he drinks
Dm
Em
Am
Until he drowns in his dreams
F
Bb
Ah, but is he happy?
No, no, no
Eb
Ebsus4
Db
He wants to be reborn
Eb
to lead the pious life
Fm
Bbm
But how's he going to going shed his
Bb
Eb
Ebsus4
boozy dreams when he has to bear the cross of
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Gsus4
A wicked wife
G
Gm
She claims to visit shows
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F
And he pretends that's where she goes
Eb
D
And as he snuggles down to his reading
Eb
in a half- filled marriage bed
D
He's so ashamed of what he's reading
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Db
B
Baug
F
that he gets blind- drunk in stead
G
Am
Sunday breakfast with the
Jenkins
They break the bread and cannot speak
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She reads the rustling of his paper
Am
He reads the way her new
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Am
shoes squeak
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Dm
Em
Am
G
And pray God to survive one more week
F
Ah, but are they happy?
Bb
Ebsus4
Eb
You'd be surprised... between
the bed and the booze and the shoes
Am
They suffer least who suffer
what they choose
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