Marie Provost Chords

by Nick Lowe
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Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: no capo
Author watfordkev [a] 1,728.
2 contributors total, last edit on Apr 13, 2019

Chords

G
C
D
Em
D/F#
C/B
Am
G/F#

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From the album Jesus of Cool
 
Tuning: EADGBE
 
Crazy lyric. Great pop song.
 
 
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
 
G                          C            D
She'd been lying there for two or three weeks
G                              C       D
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
 
G                   C     D
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
 
G                 C             D
Woah she came out west from New York
G                             C                D
But when the talkies came Mar-ie just couldn't cope
G             G/F#  Em
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
 
[Instrumental]
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|-4--4--2--0-2-0-|-5--5--4--2-4-2-|-7--7--5--4-5-4-|-9--9--7--5-7-5-|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
   G         Em     C         D      G         Em     C         D
 
G                           C        D
Those quaalude bombs didn't help her sleep
G                               C         D
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
 
G                         C        D
The cops came in and they looked a-round
G                           C           D
Throwing up everywhere over what they’d found
G             G/F#                   Em
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
 
        G  C  G  D
Poor Ma-rie
 
 
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I hope I've done it justice!
 
Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
June 2010
 
watfordkev@gmail.com
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2 comments
chr1stof
pretty sure your Gb is just a passing F# bass note (key of G = 1#- F#). same with C down to Am. not a whole B chord. also, it's 'bust into her lonely nest' in 'her cheap hotel in hollywood west'. but other than these trifles, solid work on your part.
+1
chr1stof
also- American release 'Pure Pop for Now People'. 'Jesus of Cool' not cool to u.s. record co.
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